US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 27 for "Scalable coordination of congestion control and adaptive load balancing" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,990, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Scalable coordination of 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. The load balancing mechanism is run at the packet level. A connection-level measure is generated for congestion in the computing network. The connection-level measure is accumulated at the packet level. Activation of the congestion control mechanism is limi...