ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,468, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Aggregated data link flow control" was invented by Michael Raymond Trombley (Cary, N.C.) and Simon S. Li (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for credit-based flow control of multiple data links using a common reverse channel. The links transfer data from a source to respective buffers at a sink. Credits represent available buffer space. For each data link, a credit counter at the source is decremented as data is transmitted and incremented as the sink returns credits. Reporting logic at the dat...