University of New Hampshire Assigned Patent

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, has been assigned a patent (10,880,201) developed by Varki, Elizabeth, Lee, NH, for a “geographic positioning of data storage for efficient data flow across communication networks.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Techniques are provided for generating data on the optimum number of storage-hops, the location of the storage-hops, and the bandwidth distributions of the storage-hops to construct a complete flow network for transmitting data from a sender to a receiver via a communication network. The flow network can potentially include hundreds of storage-hops, depending on the time and duration of the data flow. An algorithm is further provided for constructing an unbounded flow network from a bounded set of input parameters. Moreover, the complexity of the algorithm does not depend on the number of storage-hops, so the model is suitable for both crowd supported and data center supported transfers.”

The patent application was filed on October 17, 2017 (15/786,314).