US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 24 for "Round-trip time and explicit congestion notification signals for bandwidth utilization" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,479, issued on March 24, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Round-trip time and explicit congestion notification signals for bandwidth utilization" was invented by Abdul Kabbani (Redmond, Wash.) and Torsten Hoefler (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acknowledgement messages for a link in a computing network are accessed. Round trip time (RTT) measurements for the link are accessed. In response to determining that none of the acknowledgement messages are Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)-marked and none of the accessed RTT measurements exceeded a minimum expected latency th...