US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 20 for "Network interface device with flow control capability" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,806, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network interface device with flow control capability" was invented by Prateesh Goyal (Cambridge, Mass.), Georgios Nikolaidis (Menlo Park, Calif.), Junggun Lee (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeremias Blendin (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Yi Li (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device that includes data plane circuitry, when operational, to: identify a flow of packets that is a cause of queue congestion and cause transmission, to an upstream network interface device, of a packet with an identifier of a sou...