US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 7 for "Coordinating congestion control and adaptive load balancing" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,143, issued on April 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Coordinating congestion control and adaptive load balancing" was invented by Abdul Kabbani (Redmond, Wash.) and Torsten Hoefler (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing network implements a congestion control mechanism and a load balancing mechanism. It is determined which available routes in the network are congested. Activation of the congestion control mechanism is limited until a threshold number of the available routes are determined to be congested, which prevents over-attenuation of an overall sending rate o...