ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,676, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Method and apparatus for scheduling packets for transmission" was invented by Joergen P.R. Hofman-Bang (Ballerup, Denmark), Jacob Jul Schroder (Lyngby, Denmark), Itay Shlomo Peled (Hagor, Israel) and Rami Zemach (Givat Shapira, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device transfers packets from a packet memory to one or more network interfaces for transmission by the one or more network interfaces. The transferring of packets includes transferring the packets via one or more respective transmit data paths that correspond to one or more...