US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Sept. 16 for "Marker graph for HQoS" (Hungarian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,486, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Marker graph for HQoS" was invented by Szilveszter Nadas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sandor Laki (Budapest, Hungary), Gergo Gombos (Budapest, Hungary) and Ferenc Fejes (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for packet marking for a Hierarchical Quality of Service (HQoS) is provided to control resource sharing among a plurality of network flows with differentiated services. A packet marker at a single point (e.g., gateway) encodes the resource sharing policy for a plurality of packet flows into a single packet val...