ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,051, issued on March 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method of managing data transmission for ensuring per-flow fair bandwidth sharing" was invented by James Walter Roberts (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Dario Rossi (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implementation method includes receiving a data packet; identifying a virtual queue from a list of virtual queues to which the data packet pertains; and determining whether the identified virtual queue size exceeds a threshold maximum size. When the first size does not exceed the threshold maximum size, the ide...