ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,830, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Application-level network queueing" was invented by Anil Vasudevan (Portland, Ore.), Kiran A. Patil (Portland, Ore.) and Arun Chekhov Ilango (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed in one example a network interface card (NIC), comprising: an ingress interface to receive incoming traffic; a plurality of queues to queue incoming traffic; an egress interface to direct incoming traffic to a plurality of server applications; and a queuing engine, including logic to: uniquely associate a queue with a selected server application; receiv...