ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,708, issued on May 5, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for detecting fixed wireless access uplink congestion with a packet probe" was invented by Seng Gan (Ashburn, Va.), Anand Bhatia (Flower Mound, Texas), Ritul K. Shah (Mechanicsburg, Pa.), Saibaba Attelli (Chalfont, Pa.) and Khurram Abbas (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from a packet probe, an uplink packet flow provided to a base station by a user equipment, and may add bytes for packets of the uplink packet flow in each scheduling interval of multiple scheduling intervals. The device may...