US Patent 7529247 Empirical scheduling of network packets

Patent 7529247 was granted and assigned to Rivulet Communications on May, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Current Assignee

Rivulet Communications

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7529247

Date of Patent

May 5, 2009

Patent Application Number

10663378

Date Filed

September 17, 2003

Patent Primary Examiner

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Aung S. Moe

Patent abstract

A method of transmitting packets over a network includes steps of partitioning a packet delivery schedule into discrete time slots; transmitting a plurality of test packets from a first endpoint on the network to an intended recipient in the network using different time slots; evaluating the reliability of the network to transmit the plurality of test packets in each time slot; and selecting one or more time slots in the delivery schedule according to the evaluation step.