US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on Aug. 4 for "One-way delay measurement in a packet-switched communication network" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,064, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Telecom Italia S.p.A. (Milan).

"One-way delay measurement in a packet-switched communication network" was invented by Mauro Cociglio (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a one-way delay measurement on a bidirectional packet flow carrying live traffic exchanged between two nodes of a packet-switched communication network. At predefined times, each node transmits to the other node a respective marked packet of the bidirectional packet flow. Each node then transmits unmarked packets of the bidirectional packet flow, until it receives the marked packet transmitted by t...