US Patent Issued to Google on Sept. 16 for "Traffic shaping offload on a network interface controller" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,485, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Traffic shaping offload on a network interface controller" was invented by Vytautas Valancius (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rich Lane (Mountain View, Calif.), Bailey Forrest (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chonggang Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses, including network interface controllers and computer-readable media, for traffic shaping offload. A network computing device can receive data packets for transmission and implement a traffic policy that includes transmitting at least some data packets without delay to their i...