ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,714, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Cyclic queuing and forwarding (CQF) segmentation" was invented by Norman Finn (Addison, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating time sensitive data streams in a network. The method includes synchronizing queuing and transmission of data in a set of output buffers for buffering streams associated with a certain class of service. The method includes processing data packets of a stream using a cyclic flow meter, wherein the cyclic flow meter limits transfer of the data packets of the stream to the set of output buffers of the n...