ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,103, issued on June 23, was assigned to SPLASHTOP INC. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Push method for peripheral device redirection" was invented by Victor Chin (San Jose, Calif.), Hsien-Guo Wu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wen-pin Tsai (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The performance of peripheral devices redirected to remote servers is improved by reducing overall input lag. Some embodiments provide a "push" method that includes a client computer repeatedly requesting data from a peripheral device to which it is connected. The client computer is connected to a remote server via a network connection, and it does not need to wa...