US Patent Issued to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 10 for "Resource adaptive communication protocols" (Massachusetts, Illinois, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,609, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Resource adaptive communication protocols" was invented by Thomas O. McGinley (Portsmouth, R.I.), Colin Fumito Funai (Lincolnwood, Ill.) and Guevara Noubir (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology is described for applying authentication on a constrained bandwidth link. The method may determine an amortization factor for authentication to be applied to data blocks sent across the constrained bandwidth link. The amortization factor may be pre-set or received from a user during a communication session. Another operation may be ge...