ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,655, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Determining a transport layer protocol for communication" was invented by Kai Li (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a transport layer protocol for communication includes: receiving, from a client, a plurality of service requests based on a plurality of transport layer protocols; determining a plurality of sets of metric values of application layer metrics by determining a set of metric values of the application layer metrics based on receiving each of the plurality of the service requests, wherein the application laye...