US Patent Issued to Barefoot Networks on Aug. 5 for "Expansion of packet data within processing pipeline" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,962, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Barefoot Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Expansion of packet data within processing pipeline" was invented by Patrick Bosshart (Plano, Texas), Jay Evan Scott Peterson (San Francisco), Michael Gregory Ferrara (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Michael E. Attig (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a network forwarding IC with packet processing pipelines, at least one of which includes a parser, a set of match-action stages, and a deparser. The parser is configured to receive a packet and generate a PHV including a first number of data containers storing data for the...