US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Aug. 12 for "Packet replacement during poor network connectivity or network congestion" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,888, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Packet replacement during poor network connectivity or network congestion" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server generates a continuous audio stream during periods of poor network connectivity or network congestion. The server obtains a first audio stream from a user device connected to a real-time communication session and detects one or more missing packets in the first audio stream. The server obtains recorded portions of audio that correspond to the missing packets and combines the recorded po...