ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,657, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).
"In-band DSP management interface" was invented by Todd Rope (Santa Clara, Calif.), Whay Sing Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Arash Farhoodfar (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical communication system, a high-speed data interface to an optical module can be configured from the module's host-side interface and line-side interface. These module interfaces can be configured with an integrated digital signal processor (DSP) having a DSP microcontroller unit (MCU) as a high-speed in-band DSP management interface. The DSP MCU can communicat...