ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,069, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"NIC line-rate hardware packet processing" was invented by Gregg Bernard Lesartre (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Anthony M. Ford (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet-processing method includes looking up a first match-action table on a network interface card (NIC) for a received packet; in response to finding a matching entry indicating an action, queuing the received packet in a first queue and storing the action data in an instruction memory; and responsive to not finding a matching entry, queuing the received pa...