US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 27 for "Generating a unique ID for a flow and auto aging" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,001, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generating a unique ID for a flow and auto aging" was invented by Rajshekhar Biradar (Bangalore, India), Akshaya Nadahalli (Bengaluru, India) and Vijay Sampath (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a NIC that generates unique IDs for data flows using data fields within packets. The flow table can include multiple sub-entries that can map to the same IP ID. Each sub-entry in the flow table can be assigned a different key that serves as a unique ID for the flow for matching to packets that belong to the sam...