US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on March 24 for "Multi-stage scheduler" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,486, issued on March 24, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Multi-stage scheduler" was invented by William Brad Matthews (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Ashwin Alapati (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packet metadata for incoming packets are buffered in queue selection buffers associated with a port of a network node. Packet data for outgoing packets are buffered in a port selection buffer associated with the port. At a selection clock cycle, while a port scheduler of the network node selects a subset of the packet data for a subset of the outgoing packets from the port selection buffer, a queue scheduler of...