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Independent inventor releases an on-demand network continuity layer

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Ontario independent inventor /u/BeautifulFunction629 posted on Reddit r/robotics about a network continuity layer (Mimicking Milly Protocol - PTCL) that sits between the network and the application; it is off by default and only enables bounded continuity handling when the connection is unstable, in order to keep output smooth, and the inventor is seeking feedback and real-device testing from the robotics, teleoperation and haptic-feedback fields. The inventor says that in their own testing, under severe burst packet loss injected on Ethernet, the continuity score rose from 65 to 85 (out of 100); under WiFi gaming-like conditions, output smoothness fluctuation was reduced by about 71%; average overhead on a clean network was +0.0009 ms; and all 36 discrete commands were delivered correctly with no phantom or duplicate events. These figures come from 23 paired on/off tests, 2,200 packets per group, with impairment injected over Ethernet on two machines; the inventor explicitly states that these are their own bench results and not independently verified. The inventor says another project, MMP, is at an earlier stage and has no test data yet, and that both are under pending US patent applications.