ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,913, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Network congestion control" was invented by Prashant Ranjan (San Jose, Calif.) and Abdulkader Kabbani (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control of congestion in a network between a transmission source and a transmission destination is provided, including receiving, at the transmission source, a packet transmission acknowledgment associated with a transmission packet of a data stream received at a transmission destination, incrementing a first window resize counter based on a congestion indicator, determining that a window resi...