US Patent Issued to Barefoot Networks on Nov. 4 for "Dynamically reconfiguring data plane of forwarding element to account for power consumption" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,884, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Barefoot Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamically reconfiguring data plane of forwarding element to account for power consumption" was invented by Remy Chang (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a network forwarding element that can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust its data message processing to stay within a desired operating temperature or power consumption range. In some embodiments, the network forwarding element includes (1) a data-plane forwarding circuit ("data plane") to process data tuples associated with data messages r...