US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 4 for "Flexible scheme for adding rules to a NIC pipeline" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,840, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Flexible scheme for adding rules to a NIC pipeline" was invented by Manasi Deval (Portland, Ore.), Elazar Cohen (Haifa, Israel), Shaul Yifrach (Haifa, Israel) and Parthasarathy Sarangam (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexible schemes for adding rules to a NIC pipeline and associated apparatus. Multiple match-action tables are implemented in host memory of a platform defining actions to be taken for matching packet flows. A packet processing pipeline and an exact match (EM) cache is implemented on a network interface, such as a NIC, installed in ...