ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,616, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DreamBig Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"RDMA NIC utilizing packet level request and response interleaving" was invented by Brian Hausauer (Austin, Texas), David Arditti Ilitzky (Zapopan, Mexico) and Linghe Wang (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A best efforts (BE) hardware remote direct memory access (RDMA) transport being performed by a smart network interface controller (NIC). Elements from RoCEv2 and iWARP are utilized in combination with extensions to improve flexibility and packet error recovery. Flexibility is provided by allowing RDMA roles to be individually specifi...