US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 21 for "Fairness and congestion control convergence" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,175, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Fairness and congestion control convergence" was invented by Abdul Kabbani (Redmond, Wash.) and Torsten Hoefler (Pfaeffikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first ratio of a sending rate limit to a full line rate for a link in the computing network is accessed. A second ratio of a sending window size to W_max for the link is accessed. W_max is the maximum allowed window size or the window size that utilizes an end-to-end path for the link. One or more of the first or second ratio is used to determine an amount to reduce the send...