US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on April 7 for "Operational statistics encoding and mapping in network nodes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,123, issued on April 7, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Operational statistics encoding and mapping in network nodes" was invented by William Brad Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.), Rupa Budhia (San Jose, Calif.) and Meg Pei Lin (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-scaled accumulated byte count of a port of a network node over a sampling period is scaled with a scaling factor to generate a scaled accumulated byte count. The pre-scaled accumulated byte count represents a total number of bytes in packets transferred by the port. The scaling factor represents a first port-specific attribute of the port a...