US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Oct. 27 for "Port addressing via packet header modification" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,997, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Port addressing via packet header modification" was invented by Brijesh Singh (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for processing flows by a smart network interface card (smartNIC) based on modifying a packet. In one example, an accelerator receives a packet from a first port of the smartNIC. The accelerator determines that the packet was received from a first port via a second data path instead of a first data path. The accelerator modifies the packet to indicate that the packet arrived from the firs...