US Patent Issued to VMware on Oct. 27 for "Receive side scaling (RSS) using programmable physical network interface controller (PNIC)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,989, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Receive side scaling (RSS) using programmable physical network interface controller (PNIC)" was invented by Guolin Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Ankur Kumar Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wenyi Jiang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for receive side scaling (RSS) are described. In one example, a computer system may generate and send instruction(s) to the programmable physical network interface controller (PNIC) to configure a first flow entry that associates a first packet flow with a first queue and a second flow entr...