US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "Method and procedure for real time determination of minimum fibre channel buffer to buffer credits on an inter switch link" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,430, issued on July 1, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and procedure for real time determination of minimum fibre channel buffer to buffer credits on an inter switch link" was invented by Edward Dana Mazurek (Mebane, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the real time determination of minimum fibre channel buffer to buffer credits on an inter switch link. In one particular embodiment, a method includes communicating a first frame to a receiving switch with a first timestamp, receiving a second frame with a second and third timestamp, adding a fourth timestamp to the second frame, calculatin...