US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 23 for "Policer synchronization across multiple pipelines in a DPU" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,116, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Policer synchronization across multiple pipelines in a DPU" was invented by Weihuang Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kit Chiu Chu (Freemont, Calif.) and Pratima Chagalamarri (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe synchronizing policing entries for multiple pipelines using synchronization counters. That is, memories for each of the pipelines can store policing entries which determine whether a packet for a particular entity (e.g., a flow, a VM, or host) has exceeded a data or packet rate. If the packet is ...