ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,663, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Virtual data links" was invented by Prakhar Srivastava (Lucknow, India), Santhosh Reddy Akavaram (Hyderabad, India), Ravindranath Doddi (Hyderabad, India) and Radhakrishna Mugada (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-lane data communication link, such as a PCIe link, may be configured as virtual links. Each virtual link may correspond to a unique subset of the lanes. Data packets provided by multiple virtual machines and associated virtual functions may be buffered in transmit queues. Each transmit queue may correspond to a unique one of the virtua...