US Patent Issued to InterDigital VC Holdings on Aug. 11 for "Reporting of actively discard packets information for application-layer forward error correction in 5G services" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,695, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Reporting of actively discard packets information for application-layer forward error correction in 5G services" was invented by Srinivas Gudumasu (Montreal) and Ahmed Hamza (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method according to one embodiment comprises sending a first plurality of packets using forward error correction, FEC, with an initial success ratio. A report is received regarding a number of packets in the first plurality that were not delivered because they were actively discarded or considered obsolete. An updated succ...