US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 3 for "Virtual media offload in smart network interface controller" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,387, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Virtual media offload in smart network interface controller" was invented by Kai Zhou (Shanghai), YungChin Fang (Austin, Texas), Zhuo Zhang (Shanghai) and Zhen Cao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include a host system including at least one processor, and a network interface. The network interface may be configured to: receive, from a remote information handling system, data usable for deployment of an operating system (OS); store the data on a local storage device of the network interface; and mount a virtual stor...