ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,480, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Reliable, out-of-order transmission of packets" was invented by Leah Shalev (London), Brian William Barrett (Bellevue, Wash.), Nafea Bshara (San Jose, Calif.) and Georgy Machulsky (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system supporting reliable network communications can include a virtual machine executing a user application, and a network adapter device coupled to the virtual machine via a plurality of virtual interfaces. The user application can communicate with the network adapter device using a virtual interface assigned to the use...