US Patent Issued to VIASAT on Feb. 25 for "Method and apparatus for distributing network traffic over multiple communication networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,998, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for distributing network traffic over multiple communication networks" was invented by Pawan Uberoy (Carlsbad, Calif.), Hari Balasubramanian (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Praveen Madhav (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic split transmission ("TST") system capable of transmitting a data flow via multiple communication networks is disclosed. The TST system, in one aspect, includes a receiver, a link selector, a split unit, a tag module, and a delay module. The receiver obtains a data flow containing one or more packets with a d...