US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on Nov. 11 for "Processing of packets in a packet-switched communication network" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,468, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"Processing of packets in a packet-switched communication network" was invented by Mauro Cociglio (Turin, Italy) and Giuseppe Fioccola (Marigliano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and associated method for processing packets transmitted in a packet-switched communication network includes a sampling module that identifies amongst the received packets a plurality of samples distributed in a statistically uniform way amongst at least two non-overlapping sample sequences. Each sample sequence is then subjected to at least one identification rule, the...