ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,141, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Pooling of network processing resources" was invented by Shaopeng He (Shanghai), Haitao Kang (Shanghai), Cunming Liang (Shanghai), Anjali Singhai Jain (Portland, Ore.), Parthasarathy Sarangam (Portland, Ore.) and Yadong Li (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a switch configured to allocate packet processing resources, from a pool of packet processing resources, to multiple applications, wherein the pool of packet processing resources comprise configurable packet processing pipelines of one or more network devices...