US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 20 for "Efficient internal latency measurement in network devices" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,646, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficient internal latency measurement in network devices" was invented by Venkatavaradhan Devarajan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a network, a network device can receive, at the forwarding hardware of the network device from a processor of the network device, a packet with an indicator indicating the packet to be a delay measurement packet via a processor port of the processor. The network device can tag, using the forwarding hardware, the packet with a first timestamp indicating a time when the forwarding hardwa...