ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,694, issued on July 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Reliable out-of-order transport protocol with fast retransmission of packets" was invented by Michael Konstantinos Papamichael (Redmond, Wash.), David Andreas Sidler (Seattle) and Fei Gao (Long Island City, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As part of managing delivery of a packet flow according to a reliable transport protocol that supports multi-path delivery, a sender splits data into multiple flow packets of a flow and sends at least some of the flow packets to a receiver on multiple paths of a network. The sender receives feedback met...