High performance digital communications resiliency in a roamable virtual private network
US8276035B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 4, 2009 |
| Grant date | Sep 25, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 20, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L1/0057
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
There is a class of applications that favor expediency of the communications over reliability. Counter-intuitively, the reliability aspect of a protocol may cause sub-optimal performance when considering this special class of applications in some environments. To resolve this performance issue, the exemplary illustrative non-limiting protocol implementation favors timeliness over reliability by allowing for loss of data, thus providing a non-guaranteed, order sensitive level of service. Such features can be combined in the same system and data stream/channel with a guaranteed-reliable protocol to provide a roamable VPN simultaneously providing both guaranteed-reliable and real-time, dynamically adaptable performance.
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