ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,542, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Adaptive packet routing" was invented by Abdul Kabbani (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Torsten Hoefler (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes encoding a packet in a source endpoint of a multi-path communication network, the packet having a hash seed for use by routers to route the packet through the multi-path communication network to a destination endpoint. Network performance is tracked for the packet at the source endpoint. The hash seed is modified as a function of the network performance. ...