ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,964, issued on June 2, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for wireless data traffic management in wireline backhaul systems" was invented by Volkan Sevindik (Parker, Colo.) and Haider Syed (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for enhancing performance of a wireline communication network backhaul for wireless nodes based on data traffic and node characterization. In one embodiment, the node comprises a small-cell or other wireless base station (e.g., one utilizing unlicensed or quasi-licensed spectrum such as CBRS or C-Band) that is backhauled by a DOC...