ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,542, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Barefoot Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Configuring a switch for extracting packet header fields" was invented by Patrick Bosshart (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating configuration data for configuring a hardware switch is described. The method receives a description of functionality for the hardware switch. Based on the description, the method generates sets of match and action entries to configure the hardware switch to process packets. The method then determines, for each packet header field in a parse graph that specifies instructions for a parser of ...