Patents' Tuesday Trickle?

Today 2 of our QoS Controller patents were granted by USPTO.

                                                              

Personally 2013 has seen quite a stream of granted patents. As of today, the count of granted patents in this year stands at 11. Here is an interesting tidbit about the official grant dates for these eleven patents. All of them have been granted on a Tuesday. It seems more than just a co-incidence. Wonder how USPTO selects grant dates and why they all have been a Tuesday this year?

The recent string of patent grants has been a continuous trickle. 6 patents granted during 7 consecutive Tuesdays from August 6th till today, September 17th. This more than doubled the number of granted patents this year.



Here is a pointer to USPTO list of all granted patents with Puneet Sharma as author.

And here are the 11 so far granted in 2013:

	PAT. NO.		Title
1	8,537,846		Dynamic priority queue level assignment for a network flow
2	8,537,669		Priority queue level optimization for a network flow
3	8,531,956		Channel assignment for a wireless network
4	8,514,865		Assigning WAN links to subflows based on WAN link characteristics and application preferences
5	8,510,578		Line-card disabling for power management
6	8,503,307		Distributing decision making in a centralized flow routing system
7	8,493,923		Path switching using co-located radios in a multi-hop wireless network
8	8,464,353		Method and system for content downloads via an insecure communications channel to devices
9	8,457,121		Heterogeneous network switch system
10	8,392,737		System for controlling power consumption of a network
11	8,391,222		Channel assignment for a wireless network