US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on June 23 for "Epoch-based mechanism for providing data integrity and reliability in a messaging system" (California, Utah, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,317, issued on June 23, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Epoch-based mechanism for providing data integrity and reliability in a messaging system" was invented by Benjamin Klenk (San Jose, Calif.), Al Davis (Coalville, Utah) and Larry Robert Dennison (Mendon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Messaging protocols used by components in a messaging system to exchange messages conventionally use a reliability mechanism to ensure that each message sent by a sender is received, without compromise, by the intended receiver. Typically, this reliability mechanism involves use of a returned acknowledgement message to the...