US Patent Issued to Cable Television Laboratories on Sept. 9 for "Protocol data unit systems and methods" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,653, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Protocol data unit systems and methods" was invented by Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing a protocol data unit (PDU) set for a data network includes steps of (a) receiving a first PDU packet of the PDU set, (b) receiving, subsequent to reception of the first PDU packet, a second PDU packet of the PDU set, (c) determining, after receiving the first and second PDU packets, a congestion status of the data network for the PDU set, (d) controlling, based on the determined congestion status, a handli...