ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,134, issued on April 7, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Packet discard notifications" was invented by Alexander Shpiner (Ramat Yishai, Israel), Eran Gil Beracha (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Liron Mula (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, communication system, and method are provided. In one example, a system for switch generated explicit packet discard notifications is described that includes circuits to detect a packet is to be dropped; extract information from the packet to be dropped; and generate a notification using the extracted information from the packet to be dropped. The system...