ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,905, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and methods for network-aware rate adjustment" was invented by Mahmoud Mohamed Bahnasy (Kanata, Canada), Seyed Hossein Mortazavi (Kanata, Canada), Ali Munir (Kanata, Canada) and Yashar Ganjali (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure may provide methods, systems and apparatus related to a switch-assisted transport layer using network-aware rate adjustment. According to an aspect, a method by a network device may be provided. The method includes receiving one or more data packets corresponding to one or more flows to be ...