US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Systems and methods for managing transmission control protocol (TCP) acknowledgements" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,548, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing transmission control protocol (TCP) acknowledgements" was invented by Martin Kugler (Poing, Germany), Cahya A. Masputra (San Jose, Calif.), Christoph Paasch (Cupertino, Calif.), Hans Jurgen Steffen (Nuremberg, Germany), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.) and Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device in a wireless network accesses a queue comprising Transmission Control Protocol Acknowledgement (TCP ACK) packets. At least some packets include packet descriptors with a flow identifie...