ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,460, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Offloading fragmented traffic without buffering" was invented by Anand Siddappa Katti (Bangalore, India), AnandaVelu Thulasiram (San Jose, Calif.) and Bhupesh Bhargava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive traffic that includes fragments of a packet, and may store the fragments in a hash table, based on tuple hashes of the fragments, until a first fragment of the packet is received by a network processing unit (NPU) of the network device. The NPU of the network device may determine a service offloaded ...