US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 20 for "Server, switching method, and switching program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,656, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Server, switching method, and switching program" was invented by Hiroki Kano (Tokyo), Shinya Kawano (Tokyo), Katsuma Miyamoto (Tokyo) and Koji Sugisono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server (10) includes an FPGA-equipped NIC (11) that is connected to a 0-system vGW (15a) and is equipped with an FPGA (111) which processes a packet, an NIC (12) connected to a 1-system vGW (15b), and a switching unit (132). The switching unit (132) switches the NIC that accepts a packet to the NIC (12) by turning off a power supply of the FPGA-equipped NIC (11) when a time period is rea...