ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,462, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application flow-aware broadband service with data caps" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.), Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving, at a first networking equipment, network traffic over a network, and identifying a portion of the network traffic that corresponds to preferential network traffic, based on an indication from an application service provider or an Internet service provider (ISP). A preferential network traffic data cap for data...