MUMBAI, India, June 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617061520 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation on May 14, 2026, for Transmitting Data Using A Shared Network Adapter.

Inventors include Ratcliff, Bruce; Vangor, Dan; Valley, Stephen; Dubowsky, Margaret; Gassert, Francis; Stevens, Jerry; Tarcza, Richard; and Driever, Patricia.

The application for the patent was published on June 12, 2026, under issue no. 24/2026.

Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for a host to provide TX packets to a shared adapter that then uses a NIC to forward the TX packet to a network. In one embodiment, the host creates or fills in one or more TX storage block page entries (SBPE) for the TX ...