US Patent Issued to ZIPWHIP on Sept. 22 for "Traffic control in a communication network" (Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,737, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ZIPWHIP LLC (San Francisco).

"Traffic control in a communication network" was invented by James Lapic (Kirkland, Wash.), Bradley Robert Biltz (Fletcher, N.C.), Alison Billings (Seattle) and Joel David Niemeyer (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of traffic control in a communication network includes the operations of: receiving, by a processing device, a message associated with a communication address of a party originating the message; determining a class of service associated with the communication address; identifying a network resource locator contained in the messag...