ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,809, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Gateway and method for differentiating traffic transmitted by the gateway, traffic management device and method" was invented by Bertrand Bouvet (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for differentiating traffic is described. The method is implemented by a gateway between a first and a second network, and comprises inserting a piece of marking information into a label field of a packet transmitted by this gateway and intended to be routed to the second network in order to differentiate whether the packet has been generated by the ...