US Patent Issued to Intel on June 3 for "Software distributed, hardware aggregated hierarchical traffic management" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,333, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Software distributed, hardware aggregated hierarchical traffic management" was invented by Jasvinder Singh (Shannon, Ireland), Thomas Long (Limerick, Ireland), Eoin Walsh (Limerick, Ireland) and John J. Browne (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system comprises an interface to receive a plurality of packets; and a plurality of processor units to execute a plurality of transmission sub-interfaces, each transmission sub-interface to perform hierarchical quality of service (HQoS) scheduling on a distinct subset of the plurality ...