ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,383, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Efficient congestion control in a tunneled network" was invented by William R. Sears (Lexington, Mass.) and Martin K. Lohner (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of congestion control implemented by a sender over a network link that includes a router having a queue. During a first state, information is received from a receiver. The information comprises an estimated maximum bandwidth for the link, a one-way transit time for traffic over the link, and an indication whether the network link is congested. In response to the link bein...