ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,017, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Dynamic packet delay budget processing in quality of service" was invented by Zhendong Li (Shenzhen, China) and Jinguo Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet delay budget ("PDB") improves quality of service ("QoS") by providing an accurate delay of packets over a network. PDB includes an access network PDB ("AN PDB") and a core network PDB ("CN PDB"). Because the PDB can change based on network load, the PDB value is more accurate when the CN PDB is dynamically determined. The dynamic CN PDB can be calculated at the basestation or at the user ...