US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 8 for "Fast media flow failover in layer 4 networks" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,453, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Fast media flow failover in layer 4 networks" was invented by Anthony Brian Hayward (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Andrew John Tylee (Royal Leamington Spa, Great Britain), Matthew John Russell (Cambridge, Great Britain), William Richard Ouldridge (Cambridge, Great Britain), Michael Jeffrey Evans (Harpenden, Great Britain), Yuval Kramer (Cambridge, Great Britain) and David Alexander Jackson (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High availability network services are provided in a communications network comprising a plurality o...