US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Flow control for uplink traffic in an integrated access and backhaul network" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,006, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Flow control for uplink traffic in an integrated access and backhaul network" was invented by Murali Narasimha (Cupertino, Calif.), Sudeep Palat (Cloucestershire, Great Britain) and Candy Yiu (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide flow control for uplink traffic in an integrated access and backhaul network. A first relay node determines that its uplink buffer has reached an occupancy level higher than a pre-determined level. In response, the first relay node transmits, to a second relay node associated with the first relay no...