US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Feb. 18 for "Mechanism to enable out-of-order packet processing in a datatype engine" (Washington, Tennessee, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,048, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Mechanism to enable out-of-order packet processing in a datatype engine" was invented by Keith D. Underwood (Powell, Tenn.), Robert L. Alverson (Seattle) and Christopher M. Brueggen (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface card (NIC) receives packets corresponding to a read or write request, the packets associated with a datatype descriptor stored in a datatype engine of the NIC, and each packet associated with a precomputed context which indicates a value for each dimension of a multi-dimensional array and a st...