ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,142, issued on April 7, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Packet load-balancing" was invented by Liron Mula (Herzliya, Israel) and Eran Gil Beracha (Tel Aviv, 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 routing traffic is described that includes circuits to receive a packet, determine a size of the packet, determine a group of a plurality of groups of the packet based on the size of the packet, determine a port for the packet using a round-robin for the group of the packet, and send the packet via the port. Described systems i...