US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for adapting a WAN egress shaper rate" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,488, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for adapting a WAN egress shaper rate" was invented by Hongbo Xia (Shanghai), Xiaorong Wang (Shanghai), Yu Zhang (Shanghai) and Changhong Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a first network component, a sender shaper drop value based on the following: a maximum sequence number; a minimum sequence number; and a sender sequence counter number associated with the first network component. The method also includes determining, by the first network component, a wide area netwo...