US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on June 17 for "Modifying the congestion control algorithm applied to a connection based on request characteristics" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,158, issued on June 17, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Modifying the congestion control algorithm applied to a connection based on request characteristics" was invented by Jun Ho Choi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge server receives a first request message for transmission to the host device. The edge server determines a first congestion control algorithm based on the first request message, including characteristics of the first request message. The edge server applies the first congestion control algorithm to the transport connection for application to the transmission of the first request...