ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,813, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Techniques for network congestion control" was invented by Paul-Louis Serge Daniel Ageneau (Amsterdam) and Mark Watson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a congestion control module within a transport stack limits the rate at which packets are transmitted from a server to a client device based on a percentage of the available capacity of a network path through which the packets are transmitted. In some embodiments, the available network path capacity can be determined by first performing a linear regression using (1) send durat...