US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 14 for "Managing energy consumption in a traffic-aware manner" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,399, issued on July 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Managing energy consumption in a traffic-aware manner" was invented by Yupeng Jia (Austin, Texas) and Hongyan Lei (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing energy consumption in a traffic-aware manner includes monitoring a level of network traffic in a wireless network to which a plurality of user devices is connected, detecting, based on the monitoring, that a current level of traffic in the wireless network has exceeded a predefined threshold level of traffic, selecting, in response to the detecting, a subset of the pluralit...