US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Latency sensitive packet tagging within a host virtual machine" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,407, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Latency sensitive packet tagging within a host virtual machine" was invented by Darrin Alan Veit (Sammamish, Wash.) and Douglas Scott Gallatin (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Game consoles utilize streamed content over a data network, such as multiplayer scenarios where disparately located players may interact with one another. Streamed interactions may be competing with other computing devices and associated software applications running in parallel. Such a competition for available bandwidth within may result in data conge...