ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,658, issued on July 22, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Systems and methods for estimating throughput" was invented by Aditi Saluja (Bellevue, Wash.), Ruchir Sinha (Newcastle, Wash.) and Scott Toborg (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for predicting throughput in a network are described herein. The systems and methods use, in some examples, impaired DNS lookup times to predict what a throughput measurement would have been at the time of the issue had a measurement been taken. Using impaired DNS lookup times rather than constantly measuring throughput can reduce the workload of th...