US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 22 for "No empty and initial advance for self-clocked round robin scheduler" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,742, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"No empty and initial advance for self-clocked round robin scheduler" was invented by Jean Tourrilhes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Puneet Sharma (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system maintains sub-queues used for storing packets. A respective packet is enqueued into a sub-queue and dequeued by a scheduler. A virtual time associated with the respective packet is based on a current sub-queue virtual time corresponding to a previously enqueued packet in the sub-queue. The scheduler tracks a global virtual time based o...