US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on July 8 for "Enabling a round-trip packet loss measurement in a packet-switched communication network" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,647, issued on July 8, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Enabling a round-trip packet loss 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 enabling a round-trip packet loss measurement in a packet-switched communication network wherein a first node and a second node exchange packets comprising a packet loss field settable to an idle value or one or more measurement values. The first node performs a generation step whereby first packets having their set to a measurement value are transmitted to the second node. For each receiv...