US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for using programmable policer circuits for network flow policing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,757, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for using programmable policer circuits for network flow policing" was invented by Vishwas Danivas (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kit Chiu Chu (Fremont, Calif.) and Murty Kotha (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The packet processing chip of a networking device includes a packet processing pipeline circuit and a programmable policer circuit. A single programmable policer circuit may use policing policy identifiers and an aggregated token bucket to police multiple network flows. A policing policy identifier may govern ...