US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 25 for "Interrupt handling for received network packets" (New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,810, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Interrupt handling for received network packets" was invented by Bruce Ratcliff (Red Hook, N.Y.), Dan Vangor (Mahopac, N.Y.), Stephen R. Valley (Valatie, N.Y.), Margaret Dubowsky (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Francis Gassert (Monroe, N.Y.), Jerry Stevens (Raleigh, N.C.), Richard P. Tarcza (Kingston, N.Y.) and Patricia G. Driever (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe techniques for providing interrupts from a shared network adapter to a host operating system or control program. A register can store an interru...