US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Sept. 29 for "Transport protocol for latency sensitive applications" (New Jersey, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,296, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Transport protocol for latency sensitive applications" was invented by Shu Shi (Summit, N.J.), Rittwik Jana (Montville, N.J.), Bo Han (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Bo Chen (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards a transport protocol for latency sensitive applications. The disclosed transport protocol is "semi-reliable" in that it allows for specification of an importance of data being transmitted, thereby allowing important data to be sent reliably, while other data can be dropped if necessary...