US Patent Issued to Outdoor Wireless Networks on March 17 for "End-to-end delay management for distributed communications networks" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. RE50,833, issued on March 17, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"End-to-end delay management for distributed communications networks" was invented by James Robert Grenier (Bloomington, Minn.) and John M. Hedin (Mercer, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calculating delay in a distributed antenna system includes sending a ping initiation message from a remote node to a host node in a distributed antenna system. The ping initiation message uniquely identifies a first communication port of the remote node to the host node with a unique identification. The method also includes receiving a ping rep...