ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,772, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Technologies for increasing link efficiency" was invented by David A. Koufaty (Portland, Ore.), Rajesh M. Sankaran (Portland, Ore.) and Utkarsh Y. Kakaiya (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for increasing link efficiency are disclosed. In one embodiment, a device handle table is created at each end of a link. Device handle allocation messages can be used to associate a particular device handle with a particular domain identifier, such as a bus/device/function (BDF) identifier or a processor address space identifier (PASID). Once a devic...