ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,319, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CELONA INC. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for processing new service" was invented by Srinivasan Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Shashideep Nuggehalli (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a method and apparatus for introducing a new service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a first Metric Setting (i.e., a Packet Delay Budget (PDB)) is set based on a type associated with the new service, and initial values of the first Metric Setting are also chosen based on the type of the new service. Network conditions are allowed to vary, and performance para...