US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Aug. 25 for "Chunked file transfer among mobile peer devices" (Irish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,946, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Chunked file transfer among mobile peer devices" was invented by Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint-pol-de-leon, France) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for peer to peer sharing of files in a mobile environment are provided. In response to meeting a communication parameter of a second device, a processing device may determine whether the second device will maintain the communication parameter with a first device for at least a threshold amount of time. An amount of data that can be transferred between the first and second dev...