US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on Jan. 28 for "Round-trip time measurement in a packet-switched communication network" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,501, issued on Jan. 28, 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: "A method for transmitting a bidirectional packet flow between two nodes of a communication network. One of the nodes transmits to the other node one initial single marked packet of the bidirectional packet flow. Each one of the nodes transmits to the other node unmarked packets, until one single marked packet is received from the other node. In response thereto, each node transmits to the other node one single marked ...