ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,186, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).
"Resilient file transfer (ResiFT) mechanism for networked communication" was invented by Vijayasarathy Rajagopalan (Bangalore, India) and Kapaleeswaran Viswanathan (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for resilient file transfer comprises transmitting, by a source, a fragment of a file to a destination. The method further comprises transmitting, by the destination, an acknowledgement to the source, when the destination receives the fragment. Also, the method comprises calculating a current delay measurement (Delta), which is a difference of ...