US Patent Issued to Google on March 18 for "Offloads for multicast virtual network packet processing in a network interface card" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,813, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Offloads for multicast virtual network packet processing in a network interface card" was invented by Prashant Chandra (San Jose, Calif.), Balakrishna Raghunath (San Jose, Calif.), Uday Ramakrishna Naik (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Michael Dalton (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of offloading multicast virtual network packet processing to a network interface card are provided. In an example implementation, a network interface card can route packets in a virtual network. The network interface card can be configured to receive a ...