US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 4 for "Encoder selection for distributed network coding" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,415, issued on March 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Encoder selection for distributed network coding" was invented by Guangyi Liu (Shanghai), Gabi Sarkis (San Diego) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for selecting an encoder for network coding are provided. An example method may include receiving one or more encoder information messages from a set of network coding devices, the one or more encoder information messages being associated with the set of network coding devices. The example method may further include transmitting a selection indica...