US Patent Issued to Hughes Network Systems on June 17 for "Traffic shaping for hybrid satellite/terrestrial wide area networks" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,781, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hughes Network Systems LLC (Germantown, Md.).

"Traffic shaping for hybrid satellite/terrestrial wide area networks" was invented by Douglas Dillon (Germantown, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for traffic shaping of a hybrid network using Internet Protocol (IP) including a first transport and a second transport, the method including: establishing an on-course line to monitor usage of the first transport over a usage cycle, wherein the on-course line defines a usage-limit of the first transport for a given instant within the usage cycle; tracking a current usage of the firs...