US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 18 for "Congestion control using hierarchical match action table framework" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,812, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Congestion control using hierarchical match action table framework" was invented by Anna Levin (Haifa, Israel), Leah Shalev (Zikhron Ya'Aqov, Israel), Hani Ayoub (Majd Al Kurum, Israel) and Barak Farbman (Ramat Yishai, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metrics associated with the traffic on a network are received to perform congestion control. The metrics are compared with a set of conditions to look up a case entry for a current state of the congestion control in a case definition table of a hierarchical match action table framework. A state of the cong...