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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:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2012
Applicant:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Linda M. Zeger, Lexington, MA (US);
Muriel Medard, Belmont, MA (US);
Amanda Peters, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/701 (2013.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/00 (2013.01); H04L 2001/0093 (2013.01); H04L 12/1868 (2013.01); H04L 1/0077 (2013.01); H04L 1/1829 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method to reduce the number of data transmissions between nodes in a network is described. In one embodiment, a system and method for reducing the amount of ACK and NAK traffic in a network is described.