ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,456, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).
"Flexible packet processing interface" was invented by Istvan Haller (Cambridge, Great Britain), Omri Kahalon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Krishna Garlapati (Los Gatos, Calif.), Stephen Warren (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Avi Urman (Yokneam, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a network device includes a network interface to receive first packets from a network and send second packets over the network, a processing unit to execute software handlers, an input-output buffer to store data used by the processing unit, and packet processing hardw...