ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,895, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Accelerating data message classification with smart NICs" was invented by Shay Vargaftik (Herzliya, Israel), Alex Markuze (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Yaniv Ben-Itzhak (Herzliya, Israel), Igor Golikov (Herzliya, Israel) and Avishay Yanai (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for performing data message processing at a smart NIC of a computer that executes a software forwarding element (SFE). The method determines whether a received data message matches an entry in a data message classification cache stored on the smart NIC ...