US Patent Issued to Telecom Italia on Sept. 22 for "One-way delay measurement in a packet-switched communication network" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,719, issued on Sept. 22, 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 providing one-way delay measurements on a bidirectional packet flow exchanged between two nodes of a packet-switched network. Each packet of the bidirectional packet flow comprises a marking field. At predefined times, the two nodes start transmission of respective measurement packet blocks made of packets with marking field set equal to a measurement value. Each node continues transmission of the respect...