Patents by Inventor Peter Daniel Brook

Peter Daniel Brook has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Maintain persistent connections between servers and mobile clients
    Patent number: 9756089
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes iteratively waiting for a time interval; sending a keep-alive message from a first computing device to a second computing device; and incrementing a current value of the time interval when the first computing device receives from the second computing device a response to a current keep-alive message sent during the current iteration, until the first computing device does not receive from the second computing device any responses to the current keep-alive message sent during the current iteration; and setting the current value of the time interval to a previous value of the time interval from an immediately-previous iteration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Daniel Brook, Mohit Talwar
  • Maintain Persistent Connections Between Servers and Mobile Clients
    Publication number: 20140068038
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes iteratively waiting for a time interval; sending a keep-alive message from a first computing device to a second computing device; and incrementing a current value of the time interval when the first computing device receives from the second computing device a response to a current keep-alive message sent during the current iteration, until the first computing device does not receive from the second computing device any responses to the current keep-alive message sent during the current iteration; and setting the current value of the time interval to a previous value of the time interval from an immediately-previous iteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Peter Daniel Brook, Mohit Talwar