US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 3 for "Segmented link training" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,106, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Segmented link training" was invented by Adee O. Ran (Maayan Baruch, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided to extend training to an end-to-end method, where a ready-to-send (RTS) variable is added to training frames to indicate that, on a current interface, the Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) sublayer, with all its lanes, has valid data and appropriate clock timing and is ready to send data to the output when training is completed. These techniques are applicable to a PMA that is an endpoint (and thus has only a single network in...