US Patent Issued to Innovium on Sept. 9 for "Efficient scheduling using adaptive packing mechanism for network apparatuses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,535, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Innovium Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient scheduling using adaptive packing mechanism for network apparatuses" was invented by Ajit Kumar Jain (Milpitas, Calif.) and Ashwin Alapati (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scheduler in a network device serves ports with data units from a plurality of queues. The scheduler implements a scheduling algorithm that is normally constrained to releasing data to a port no more frequently than at a default maximum service rate. However, when data units smaller than a certain size are at the heads of one or more data unit queues assigned ...