ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,749, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Network switch with hybrid architecture" was invented by Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Timothy J. Johnson (Madison, Wis.), Abdulla M. Bataineh (Seattle) and Jonathan Paul Beecroft (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch has a packet pulling architecture, and also supports packet pushing. In an example implementation, a device includes: an output buffer; a data crossbar connected to the output buffer; an input buffer connected to the data crossbar; an input queue; a request crossbar connected ...