US Patent Issued to Connectify on Oct. 20 for "Minimizing connection delay for a data session" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,751, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Connectify Inc. (Philadelphia).

"Minimizing connection delay for a data session" was invented by Kevin Cunningham (Swarthmore, Pa.), Alexander Gizis (Philadelphia) and Brian Prodoehl (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example may include closing, via a client device, an active transport socket associated with a communication session with a virtual private network (VPN) server after identifying a period of data inactivity over a first network, identifying, via the client device, new application data traffic intended for a remote destination, forwarding, via the client devi...