ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,468, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"SLA performance prediction method and related apparatus, and device" was invented by Xi Peng (Hong Kong), Li Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Gong Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to service level agreement (SLA) performance prediction methods, apparatuses, and devices. In one example method, a first network device obtains timestamps and packet lengths of a plurality of data packets. The first network device determines an arrival time interval of each of the plurality of data packets based on the ti...