US Patent Issued to Dropbox on June 17 for "Rate limiter state caching" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,157, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Rate limiter state caching" was invented by Raven Black (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reduction in or avoidance of latency in a rate limiting process is achieved by the implementation of a cache, on a rate limiting client, storing a current state of a rate liming server. The rate limiting client receives a communication from a source device that is destined to a destination device. The rate limiting client determines the state of rate limiting. If the state of rate limiting indicates that rate limiting is not in place on the rate limiting server, th...