US Patent Issued to Lawrence Li on April 7 for "Apparatus and method for pooling network interface cards in a cloud network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,149, issued on April 7, was assigned to Lawrence Li (Beijing).

"Apparatus and method for pooling network interface cards in a cloud network" was invented by Lawrence Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface component having a CPU and a pool of physical NICs used to provide network interface resources for one or more virtual NICs is disclosed. An operating system of the network interface component creates one or more virtual NICs to facilitate data flows to and from virtual machines running on one or more servers coupled to the network interface component. The operating system dynamically creates and manages as m...