US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Aug. 5 for "Method and system for dynamically controlling application usage on a network with heuristics" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,800, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and system for dynamically controlling application usage on a network with heuristics" was invented by Masoor Ramesh (Cumming, Ga.) and Kim Haislip (Stone Mountain, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, accessing a heuristic rule associated with network data that is collectible by end user devices; determining a dynamic variable according to the heuristic rule; converting the dynamic variable to a value; adjusting, according to the value, a number of the end user devices that are to transmi...