US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 5 for "Methods and arrangements for supporting estimation of latency over a communication path in a communication network" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,799, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and arrangements for supporting estimation of latency over a communication path in a communication network" was invented by Marcus Ihlar (Alvsjo, Sweden) and Robert Skog (Hasselby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and device(s) for supporting estimation of latency over a communication path in a communication network between a data flow shaping node, providing a data flow in bursts towards a data flow target node, and a probe node. The devices(s) initiate to transmit, by the data flow shaping node, a sample burst being a burs...