ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,442, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Efficient fail over to backup link" was invented by Bernard Breton (Gatineau, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficient fast failover of a primary link to a secondary link comprising monitoring an amount of user packets on said primary link and sending synthetic packets on said secondary link at a predetermined rate based on said amount of user packets wherein said predetermined rate is changed as a function of change in said amount of user packets."
The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2021, under Application No. 17/449,...