US Patent Issued to Ethernovia on April 1 for "Cut-through data forwarding with early ingress processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,258, issued on April 1, was assigned to Ethernovia Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cut-through data forwarding with early ingress processing" was invented by Brian Arnold Petersen (San Francisco), Tom Quoc Wellbaum (San Jose, Calif.) and Poon-Kuen Leung (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for cut-through data unit forwarding with early ingress processing of a data unit in a communications network, such as an Ethernet-based network. According to some embodiments, cut-through data unit forwarding is performed such that data unit processing is initiated by a receiving network device while the data unit ...