US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 29 for "Method and system for a network congestion service" (Rhode Island, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,320, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for a network congestion service" was invented by Lap Tse (Marietta, Ga.) and Mark T. Watts (Newport, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an network congestion service. The service includes adding bits to a packet that indicate a priority for dropping the packet when there is congestion. The service may add the bits to an Internet Protocol header of the packet. The service may also include re-routing the pack...