ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,657, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"High bandwidth content addressable memory (CAM) based hardware architecture for datacenter networking" was invented by Srinivas Vaduvatha (San Jose, Calif.) and Weihuang Wang (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication protocol system is provided for reliable transport of packets. A content addressable memory hardware architecture including a reorder engine and a retransmission engine may be utilized for the reliable transport of the packets. The content addressable memory module includes a primary CAM that may be logically partitioned ...