US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Sept. 2 for "System and method for facilitating fine-grain flow control in a network interface controller (NIC)" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,903, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"System and method for facilitating fine-grain flow control in a network interface controller (NIC)" was invented by David Charles Hewson (Bristol, Great Britain), Abdulla M. Bataineh (Seattle), Thomas L. Court (Three Lakes, Wis.) and Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface controller (NIC) capable of facilitating fine-grain flow control (FGFC) is provided. The NIC can be equipped with a network interface, an FGFC logic block, and a traffic management logic block. During operation, the ne...