ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,657, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hangzhou Alicloud Feitian Information Technology Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Message forwarding method and apparatus based on remote direct data storage, and network card and device" was invented by Yilong Lyu (Hangzhou, China) and Shunmin Zhu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message forwarding method and apparatus based on Remote Direct Memory Access, and a network card and a device. The method includes: acquiring payload data corresponding to an RDMA message to be forwarded; encapsulating a message header of the payload data by using a hardware module in a network card node ...