Motorola Corporation

Raytheon Company

Allan T Mense

Jonathan Henry Gross

Quenten E Duden

A high energy, e.g., ultraviolet (UV) catalyzed decomposing foam encapsulating kinetic media forms a payload to be boosted in space and provides an ultra-light weight means for intercepting an incoming missile or other target. The decomposed foam releases the kinetic media (at designed rates so as to preserve a required density of media on target) to intercept a target and destroy it. The use of the decomposing foam significantly lowers the weight and cost and improves the probability of success of destroying the target.

Catalyzed decomposing foam for encapsulating space-based kinetic objects

Network nodes ( ) of a communication network ( ) determine whether the queue position ( ) of a data packet ( ) exceeds a threshold ( ). Data packets which are placed in a queue that has a depth greater than the threshold, and therefore will experience increased delay at this node, are remarked to a higher priority for expedited handling at the next hop. The next hop network node which handles that data packet will put it in a higher priority queue ( ) such that it will experience less delay at the that node. In this way, a negative correlation in node-to-node delay is achieved and overall delay variation is reduced.

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Allan T Mense