US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on Dec. 9 for "Round-trip time measurement in a packet-switched communication network" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,988, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Round-trip time measurement in a packet-switched communication network" was invented by Mauro Cociglio (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is disclosed a method for performing a RTT measurement on a bidirectional packet flow transmitted between two nodes of a packet-switched communication network. Each node applies a respective marking value to its outgoing packets, and switches outgoing packet does not exceed a predefined time threshold. An intermediate measurement point may provide an RTT measurement as a time lapsing between two consecutive switching...