ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,488, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Network traffic arbitration based on packet priority" was invented by Yalcin Yilmaz (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Monica Man Kay Tang (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for network traffic arbitration includes, at a network router, receiving two or more network packets over two or more input ports. During an observation window, traffic parameters for the two or more network packets are stored in a traffic history table, the traffic parameters including a Quality-of-Service (QOS) priority value for a network packet of the ...