ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,036, issued on May 6.
"Wireless message scheduling for improved fairness" was invented by David E. Newman (Poway, Calif.) and R. Kemp Massengill (Palos Verdes, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Currently, if a wireless device transmits a message but it is not received properly, the device is required to wait a variable time before retransmitting the message, and that waiting time is increased after each unsuccessful attempt. This is to reduce network congestion at high traffic rates, but it also puts certain users at an unfair disadvantage. For example, a user that has tried repeatedly to communicate is forced to wait longer and ...