ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,609, issued on May 12, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Controlling data rate based on domain and radio usage history" was invented by Sheldon Meredith (Roswell, Ga.), William Cottrill (Canton, Ga.) and John Pastore (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A domain and a mobile device may exchange data via a radio access node included in a mobile network. During a time of peak demand, a data load level of the radio access node may exceed a threshold. To accommodate the peak demand, historical types and volumes of data may be used to manage a data rate related to data associated with the domain. Based on ...