ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,121, issued on June 17, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Packet processing framework" was invented by Michael David Larson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for improved data routing and forwarding by exploiting the increasing number of logical cores in a computing system. In certain embodiments, a network device comprising several network interfaces and logical cores is disclosed. The network device may also include a plurality of processing nodes, wherein each processing node includes instructions for processing network packets and is associated with a logical core. Furthermore, the ...