US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 9 for "Queue protection using a shared global memory reserve" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,538, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Queue protection using a shared global memory reserve" was invented by Vinod Mitulal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Krishnan Subramani (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Newman (Fremont, Calif.) and Georges Akis (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology relates to the management of a shared buffer memory in a network switch. Systems, methods, and machine readable media are provided for receiving a data packet at a first network queue from among a plurality of network queues, determining if a fill level of a queue in a shared buffer of th...