US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on May 6 for "Prioritized hash table" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,873, issued on May 6, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Prioritized hash table" was invented by Sudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam (Bothell, Wash.), Karthik Krishnamurthy (Chennai, India) and Anbalagan Natchimuthu (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hash collision in a highly scaled configuration cannot be prevented. However, the impact of the hash collision may be reduced based on a priority. Currently, there are no priorities assigned to virtual ports (VP) in a VXLAN environment. Thus, any VP may be impacted by not being added to a hash table that facilitates network data traffic processing. The probabil...