US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on March 24 for "Packet ordering function for TSN/DetNet networks" (Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,484, issued on March 24, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Packet ordering function for TSN/DetNet networks" was invented by Balazs Varga (Budapest, Hungary), Gyorgy Miklos (Pilisborosjeno, Hungary) and Janos Farkas (Kecskemet, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PDU ordering function (POF) restores the proper order of PDUs in a stream, at the Layer-2 or 3 level of a TSN or DetNet. The sequence number of the last PDU forwarded is stored, and compared to the sequence number of a newly received PDU. If the new PDU is an earlier or the "next" PDU in the stream, it is forwarded and the value of th...