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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2007
Applicants:
Khaled Elmeleegy, Houston, TX (US);
Alan L. Cox, Houston, TX (US);
Tze Sing Eugene NG, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Khaled Elmeleegy, Houston, TX (US);
Alan L. Cox, Houston, TX (US);
Tze Sing Eugene Ng, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
William Marsh Rice University, Houston, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for preventing a count-to-infinity problem in a network using epochs of sequence numbers in protocol messages to eliminate stale protocol information in the network and to allow the forwarding topology to recover in merely one round trip time across the network.