US Patent Issued to Sensormatic Electronics on Oct. 27 for "Synchronization of access to a distributed network resource from multiple hosts" (Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,000, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sensormatic Electronics LLC (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Synchronization of access to a distributed network resource from multiple hosts" was invented by Zhiqian Wang (Lisle, Ill.) and Mikhail Polyakov (Boynton Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for controlling access to a shared resource on a distributed network that include transmitting a multicast request packet to a plurality of hosts to request access to the shared resource, setting a first timer for a first predetermined period of time after transmitting the ...