US Patent Issued to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE on Jan. 27 for "TCP ACK rate reduction in mobile communications" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,171, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"TCP ACK rate reduction in mobile communications" was invented by Jarkko Eskelinen (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various solutions for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) acknowledgement (ACK) rate reduction in mobile communications are described. A processor of an apparatus compresses a plurality of source TCP ACKs into compressed TCP ACKs. The processor then transmits the compressed TCP ACKs in a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) data protocol data unit (PDU) to a receiver."

The patent was filed on Oct. 8, 2021, under Applicatio...