US Patent Issued to NETAPP on May 20 for "Methods and systems for resending missing network data packets" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,046, issued on May 20, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for resending missing network data packets" was invented by Houze Xu (Lexington, Mass.) and Yuepeng Qi (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a networked storage environment are provided. One method includes splitting, by a first node, a payload into a plurality of data packets, each data packet having a portion of the payload indicated by an offset value indicating a position of each portion within the payload; transmitting, by the first node, the plurality of data packets to a second node using a network connec...