US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on June 10 for "System and method for facilitating efficient address translation in a network interface controller (NIC)" (Washington, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,252, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"System and method for facilitating efficient address translation in a network interface controller (NIC)" was invented by Abdulla M. Bataineh (Seattle), Thomas L. Court (Three Lakes, Wis.) and Hess M. Hodge (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface controller (NIC) capable of facilitating efficient memory address translation is provided. The NIC can be equipped with a host interface, a cache, and an address translation unit (ATU). During operation, the ATU can determine an operating mode. The operating mode can indica...