US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Frameworks and interfaces for offload device-based packet processing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,896, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Frameworks and interfaces for offload device-based packet processing" was invented by Pradeep Vincent (Kenmore, Wash.), Matthew David Klein (Seattle) and Samuel James McKelvie (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device can include packet processing circuitry to provide support for virtual functions. The packet processing circuitry can perform operations such as receiving data traffic from a virtual machine, determining an egress rule for the data traffic based on a rule table, and encapsulating the data traffic according to the egress rule."

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