ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,729, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and apparatus for detecting network services" was invented by Khuong Nhat Nguyen (Frisco, Texas), Abhishek Sehgal (Plano, Texas), Hao Chen (Plano, Texas) and Guanbo Chen (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for detecting network service types by grouping together applications that have similar latency requirement and data characteristics to form a service type. Machine learning algorithms may be used to detect the traffic pattern in the traffic stream by using features extracted from packet information...