US Patent Issued to ORANGE on May 26 for "Methods and devices for protecting a stream of packets" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,059, issued on May 26, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Methods and devices for protecting a stream of packets" was invented by Bruno Decraene (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Isabelle Athias (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting a stream of packets in a network composed of packet router nodes and stream transmitter and receiver nodes. The receiver node is connected to a router node handling routing of a packet to the receiver node according to an expected value of a protection parameter included in at least one field of a packet of the stream. The method is implemented by a...