US Patent Issued to IRIDIUM SATELLITE on Feb. 24 for "Managing congestion in a satellite communications network" (Arizona, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,437, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to IRIDIUM SATELLITE LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Managing congestion in a satellite communications network" was invented by George Xenakis (Tempe, Ariz.), Jayesh Patel (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Hermon Pon (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, congestion in a satellite communications network is managed based on current resource usage information received for a primary satellite servicing a terminal that is requesting to initiate a communications session. The current resource usage information is received within a communications session setup procedure that identifies a type of t...