US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 20 for "Reliable transmission of messages in packet networks" (Austrian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,633, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reliable transmission of messages in packet networks" was invented by Bharath Vasudevan (Bellandur, India) and Christian Schmutzer (Koenigsbrunn im Weinviertel, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for transmitting data in a packet network. In various embodiments, a method includes: determining, by a first node, automatic protection switching (APS) information associated with the first node; initiating, by the first node, a timer based on the APS information; communicating, by the first nod...