US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 6 for "Flow prioritization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,669, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Flow prioritization" was invented by Srinivasan Balasubramanian (San Diego), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Srirang A Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.) and Sreevalsan Vallath (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and circuitries are provided for downlink flow control. In one example, a method for a user equipment (UE) includes determining respective priorities of uplink (UL) feedback packets based on a respective UE-assigned priority of an application or data flow with which the respective UL feedback packet is associated; and ...