US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on July 15 for "Method and system for facilitating lossy dropping and ECN marking" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,924, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Method and system for facilitating lossy dropping and ECN marking" was invented by Jonathan P. Beecroft (Bristol, Great Britain) and Anthony Michael Ford (Keynsham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for performing lossy dropping and ECN marking in a flow-based network. The system can maintain state information of individual packet flows, which can be set up or released dynamically based on injected data. Each flow can be provided with a flow-specific input queue upon arriving at a switch. Pac...