US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Feb. 17 for "Fine-grained and coarse-grained congestion window synchronization for TCP" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,485, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Fine-grained and coarse-grained congestion window synchronization for TCP" was invented by Jean Tourrilhes (Milpitas, Calif.) and Puneet Sharma (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for improved TCP congestion control designed to address "mixed coarse-grained-fine-grained signal" scenarios. A TCP sender of the present technology achieves this improvement by leveraging two TCP congestion windows for a TCP connection: (1) a "fine-grained TCP signal-dependent congestion window" which is adjusted...