US Patent Issued to The Boeing on July 22 for "Unified quality of service management of aircraft data traffic through satellite communication system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,096, issued on July 22, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Chicago).

"Unified quality of service management of aircraft data traffic through satellite communication system" was invented by Guangyu Pei (Bellevue, Wash.) and Anil Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing aircraft satellite communication data traffic is provided. The method comprises calculating total available satellite communication bandwidth across a number of virtual local area networks (VLANs) of an onboard network of an aircraft and prioritizing data traffic for the VLANs according to a specified traffic priority and quality of service policies....