US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Overhead reduction using address translation in direct memory accesses" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,360, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Overhead reduction using address translation in direct memory accesses" was invented by Kun Xu (Austin, Texas), Ilya Minkin (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ron Diamant (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to reduce direct memory access (DMA) overhead may include retrieving an address translation descriptor from a descriptor queue of a DMA engine, and updating an address translation table in the DMA engine with address translation information obtained from the location indicated by the address translation descriptor. A set of memory descriptors...