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Article: Maryland Inventor Develops Data Rate Adjuster
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 7, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 7 -- Stephen K. Vernon of Columbia, Md., has developed a data rate adjuster that uses transport latency.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to an "apparatus and method for reducing the data rate in a network using a delay processor. Since an increase in the data rate can overwhelm parts of the network hardware, such as a router, a delay processor is introduced so that data is delayed by a fixed amount so as to lower the data rate. A configuration table determines the amount of delay. A slowly changing amount of delay can be used in place of a fixed amount."
The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,116,636 on Oct. 3.
The patent ...