ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,011, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Network resource allocation for energy-constrained devices" was invented by Ramy Atawia (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology is generally directed towards network resource allocation for energy constrained devices. Energy constrained devices can use shortened discontinuous reception (DRX) intervals to reduce their energy consumption. In order to provide adequate quality of service (QoS) to energy constrained devices using shortened DRX intervals, a network controller can use the disclosed techniques to greedily allocate a...