US Patent Issued to Intel on March 11 for "Deterministic packet scheduling and DMA for time sensitive networking" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,163, issued on March 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deterministic packet scheduling and DMA for time sensitive networking" was invented by Kishore Kasichainula (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a network interface controller (NIC) includes multiple packet transmission queues to queue data packets for transmission. The data packets are assigned to multiple traffic classes. The NIC also includes multiple input/output (I/O) interfaces for retrieving the data packets from memory. Each I/O interface is assigned to a subset of the traffic classes. The NIC also includes scheduler circuitry ...