ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,995, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Egress packet scheduling" was invented by Daniel Christian Biederman (Saratoga, Calif.), Jin Yan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ho-Ming Leung (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device. The network interface device can include circuitry to select a packet for transmission from among at least one time-based queue and at least one priority-based queue based on a departure time stamp value associated with the packet and a current time value. The network interface device can include circuitry to cause...