ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,906, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"System and method for GPU-initiated communication" was invented by Elena Agostini (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer based system and method for sending data packets over a data network may include: preparing data packets and packet descriptors on one or more graphical processing units (GPUs); associating packets with a packet descriptor, which may determine a desired transmission time of the packets associated with that descriptor; receiving an indication of a clock time; and physically transmitting packets via an output interface, at a clock...