US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on May 5 for "Variable latency testing" (Florida, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,232, issued on May 5, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Variable latency testing" was invented by Patrick Giagnocavo (Littleton, Colo.) and Michael Stillman (Pensacola, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing variable latency testing. In various embodiments, a computing system may identify a plurality of network devices among network devices that are distributed across a network, based on a set of characteristics for testing a target device in the network. The computing system establishes a plurality of paths, each path corresponding to a path between t...