ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,693, issued on June 9, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Optimizing user experience in encrypted traffic" was invented by Konstantinos Vandikas (Solna, Sweden), Alexandros Nikou (Danderyd, Sweden), Maxim Teslenko (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Lackis Eleftheriadis (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods (500) and devices (800) for determining a priority level for a first application or a first application type. The method comprises receiving (s502) a first usage data reporting message, the first usage data reporting message comprising a first masked usage value generated by a first UE (102) using...