US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Dynamically enabling a transport control protocol proxy for satellite networks" (Canadian, Australian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,798, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamically enabling a transport control protocol proxy for satellite networks" was invented by David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Jeff Apcar (Willoughby, Australia), Oliver Boehmer (Welt, Germany) and Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for a TCP proxy to communicate over a LEO satellite network on behalf of a client device by selecting a TCP congestion-control algorithm that is optimal for the LEO satellite network based on the time of day and/or location of the TCP proxy. Based on the locations of satellite...