US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 14 for "System and method for facilitating data request management in a network interface controller (NIC)" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,546, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"System and method for facilitating data request management in a network interface controller (NIC)" was invented by Abdulla M. Bataineh (Vista, Calif.), Thomas Court (Three Lakes, Wis.), David Charles Hewson (Bristol, Great Britain) and Timothy J. Johnson (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface controller (NIC) capable of facilitating efficient data request management is provided. The NIC can be equipped with a command queue, a message chopping unit (MCU), and a traffic management logic block. During operation...