ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,257, issued on June 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"System and method for processing networking packets using a reorder queue" was invented by Tian Tan (Kirkland, Wash.), Anshuman Verma (Redmond, Wash.), Tushar Garg (Seattle) and Taylor Catherine Swanson (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method for processing packets in parallel using a reorder queue is described. As packets are received, it is determined which packet is the first packet in the flow. Once identified, the first packet in the flow, along with all other packets in the flow, is sent to the reorder queue ...