ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,846, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic management of dejitter buffer in an emulation based system" was invented by Sundeep P. Prabhu (Bangalore, India), Raghupathi Somashekarappa (Bangalore, India), Luca Della Chiesa (Concorezzo, Italy) and Christian Schmutzer (Koenigsbrunn im Weinviertel, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for management of a dejitter buffer for network communication. A system includes ports to receive emulated traffic transmitted over a packet network, a central memory pool, a controller to allocate memory from the central memory pool dejitter buffe...