ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,467, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Aggregating small remote memory access requests" was invented by Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Robert L. Alverson (Seattle), Nathan L. Wichmann (Bloomington, Minn.) and Eric P. Lundberg (Eau Claire, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface card (NIC) receives a stream of commands, a respective command comprising memory-operation requests, each request associated with a destination NIC. The NIC buffers asynchronously the requests into queues based on the destination NIC, each queue specific to a corresponding de...