US Patent Issued to Clockwork Systems on July 22 for "Quantized pause for a traffic control mechanism robust to underlying network conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,675, issued on July 22, was assigned to Clockwork Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Quantized pause for a traffic control mechanism robust to underlying network conditions" was invented by Shiyu Liu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Balaji S. Prabhakar (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application determines conditions of the network between a sender host and a receiver host. The application determines, from the conditions, a length of pause to apply. The application transmits the traffic until the length of pause is completely applied to the network using a series of quantized pauses. When the length of pause exceeds a thr...