US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 28 for "Application layer control plane" (Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,136, issued on July 28, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Application layer control plane" was invented by Jianchun Zhou (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yakun Gao (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting data traffic at the application layer of a communication device and dividing the application data into two groups, C-plane and U-plane, based on delay-sensitive and non-delay-sensitive characteristics. The method involves determining whether the data traffic is delay-sensitive, routing the data traffic to a control plane group within the applica...