US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Debugging packet processing pipelines" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,607, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Debugging packet processing pipelines" was invented by Alan Lo (Boulder, Colo.), Krishna Garlapati (Los Gatos, Calif.), Stephen Warren (Fort Collins, Colo.), Doron Ofek (Ramat-Hasharon, Israel) and Matan Azrad (Yokneam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a network device. The network device is to receive a packet comprising metadata. Responsive to determining that an entry in a match action table matches a match action lookup tuple based on the metadata, identify a debug instruction associated with the entry, the entry in the m...