US Patent Issued to Barefoot Networks on March 18 for "Messaging between remote controller and forwarding element" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,835, issued on March 18, was assigned to Barefoot Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Messaging between remote controller and forwarding element" was invented by Changhoon Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xiaozhou Li (San Jose, Calif.), Anurag Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Julianne Zhu (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a forwarding element that can be configured through in-band data-plane messages from a remote controller that is a physically separate machine from the forwarding element. The forwarding element of some embodiments has data plane circuits that include several con...