US Patent Issued to Rockport Networks on Aug. 18 for "Method for distributing multipath flows in a direct interconnect network" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,805, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Rockport Networks Inc. (Canada).

"Method for distributing multipath flows in a direct interconnect network" was invented by Alan James Jennings (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of routing a flow of packets from a source node to a destination node over multiple pathways only when the destination node has determined and advised the source node that a packet reordering resource is available for use with multipath operation. Also disclosed is a method of detecting packet loss without incurring timeout delays when routing packets in a flow of packets over multiple...