ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,617, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and device for setting priority of packet transmission" was invented by Zhuoliang Zhang (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for setting priority of packet transmission is provided. The method includes receiving an uplink packet from a client device via a local area network (LAN) port. The method includes determining whether the uplink packet is a domain name system (DNS) query packet. The method includes comparing a query string in the uplink packet with a list including a plurality of strings when determining that the uplink p...