US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 16 for "Smart NIC/DPU translation agent for vendor-specific communication" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,441, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Smart NIC/DPU translation agent for vendor-specific communication" was invented by Phillip Andrew Leech (Houston), Jeffrey R. Hilland (Lago Vista, Texas) and Clark Thomas Laughlin (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a part of a networking system, a Smart Network Interface Card (NIC)/Data Processing Unit (DPU) translation agent can be implemented by a device within a Smart NIC/DPU. The Smart NIC/DPU translation agent translates operation requests associated with a vendor-neutral API method into a vendor-specific API method, e.g...