ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,306, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Gate controlled frame or packet replication and elimination function in cloud environment" was invented by Balazs Varga (Budapest, Hungary), Janos Farkas (Kecskemet, Hungary), Gyorgy Miklos (Pilisborosjeno, Hungary) and Janos Harmatos (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for packet or frame replication and elimination in a network, includes obtaining by a gate controller downstream information indicating which application instance in an application cluster is downstream active needing to send a stream of packets or fra...