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Reported by Farhan Qazi:

I feel pleased as well as proud to share this news with you that a FAST alumnus, Kamran A. Qazi, has gotten his first U.S. Patent approved for an invention. I'm not sure though if this is the first one for any FAST Alumni as well.
 
Briefly, 
 
Method and apparatus for preventing a spurious retransmission after a planned interruption of communications

Abstract
In a wireless communication system (400), a mobile station (404) or a base station (402), or both working together, determine (302) whether a planned interruption in communications is about to occur; and, in response to determining that the planned interruption is about to occur, progressively increase (306) the round-trip time for a plurality of successive data segments sent before the planned interruption occurs, such that a retransmission timeout value calculated by a sender becomes larger than a time required to complete the planned interruption, thereby preventing a spurious retransmission.
 
For more information, please follow this URL from United States Patent & Trademark Office:
 
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22US+7,321,567+B2%22&s2=%22US+7,321,567+B2%22&OS=#bottom
 
Kamran A. Qazi is from Batch 89 of FAST.
 
Regards,
 
Farhan A. Qazi
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