US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 12 for "Weighted random early back-to-sender notification" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,756, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Weighted random early back-to-sender notification" was invented by Abdul Kabbani (Redmond, Wash.) and Torsten Hoefler (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is determined that a computing node is contributing to a network congestion event. A congestion notification message is generated. A timing profile is determined for sending the congestion notification message based on the level of the network congestion event. Based on the timing profile, the congestion notification message is forwarded to the computing node determin...