US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on June 24 for "System and method for facilitating efficient utilization of an output buffer in a network interface controller (NIC)" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,686, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"System and method for facilitating efficient utilization of an output buffer in a network interface controller (NIC)" was invented by Partha Pratim Kundu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David Charles Hewson (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface controller (NIC) capable of efficiently utilizing an output buffer is provided. The NIC can be equipped with an output buffer, a host interface, an injector logic block, and an allocation logic block. The output buffer can include a plurality of cells, each of which ...