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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2006
Applicants:
Marc E. Mosko, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Daniel H. Greene, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Juan Liu, Milpitas, CA (US);
James E. Reich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Qingfeng Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Marc E. Mosko, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Daniel H. Greene, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Juan Liu, Milpitas, CA (US);
James E. Reich, San Francisco, CA (US);
Qingfeng Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of managing traffic in an ad hoc network determines local data traffic levels at a node, and uses the local data traffic levels to define a criteria. The criteria is applied to a microutility associated with the data sample to determine if the data sample should be propagated, temporarily delayed or dropped.