ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,848, issued on April 14, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Efficient mechanism for the transmission of multipath duplicate packets" was invented by Eyal Zohar (Shimshit, Israel), Alex Markuze (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Igor Golikov (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Israel Cidon (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method, in some embodiments, aggregates duplicate transmission control protocol (TCP) packets of a data stream duplicated and sent over disjoint routing paths. Each duplicate pair of packets includes a packet sequence number unique to that duplicate pair. The method iteratively (1) generates a window of packe...