US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 18 for "Recycled entropies packet spraying" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,824, issued on March 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Recycled entropies packet spraying" was invented by Abdul Kabbani (Redmond, Wash.) and Torsten Hoefler (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entropy value is generated for a data packet to be transmitted on a computing network. The entropy value is usable to select or change a network path for the data packet. In response to receiving an acknowledgement message for the data packet, the entropy value is saved in a storage structure if the entropy value is acknowledged as not congested. When transmitting an additional da...