US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus and method for scheduling traffic" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,290, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus and method for scheduling traffic" was invented by Silvio Mandelli (Stuttgart, Germany) and Thorsten Wild (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus comprising means for: detecting an occurrence of a traffic burst event on a flow within a wireless network; responsive to the detection of the occurrence of a traffic burst event, determining whether a traffic burst allowance is available; responsive to determining that the traffic burst allowance is available, scheduling the flow and/or another flow within...