ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,493, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Innovium Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Delay-based tagging in a network switch" was invented by William Brad Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.), Puneet Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ajit Kumar Jain (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device organizes packets into various queues, in which the packets await processing. Queue management logic tracks how long certain packet(s), such as a designated marker packet, remain in a queue. Based thereon, the logic produces a measure of delay for the queue, referred to herein as the "queue delay." Based on a comparison of the current que...