US Patent Issued to Google on March 24 for "Software assisted implementation of congestion signaling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,478, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Software assisted implementation of congestion signaling" was invented by Mohammad Jafar Akhbarizadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Weida Huang (Mountain House, Calif.) and Abhiram Ravi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Congestion signaling by receiving a packet at a node, the packet comprising a congestion signal tag including a congestion signal value, the congestion signal value having been set by another node among one or more other nodes through which the packet has traveled; comparing the congestion signal value to a mask that is determined acc...