ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,567, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Apparatuses, methods, and systems for detecting an unresponsive client" was invented by Shalendra Tripathi (Gurugram, India), Ashutosh Maheshwari (Gurugram, India) and Shubham Mishra (Kanpur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a first client that is associated with a first data item, identifying a first time when the first data item is obtained, identifying a second time associated with a second data item, wherein a receipt of the second data item has not been acknowledged by the first client ...