US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Aug. 25 for "Network packet latency management" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,808, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Network packet latency management" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia), Benny Pruden (Brownstown, Pa.) and Mark Francisco (Clarksburg, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for managing information transmitted between and/or within communication networks. Aspects discussed herein relate to monitoring and characterizing data flows with network and/or latency parameters, such as a time-to-buffer (TTB) parameter. Latency managers, network components, or other suitable devices operating in a communicatio...