US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 11 for "Method and apparatus to perform operations on multiple segments of a data packet in a network interface controller" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,643, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to perform operations on multiple segments of a data packet in a network interface controller" was invented by Naru Dames Sundar (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Chih-Jen Chang (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked memory such as a high bandwidth memory (HBM) with a wide data path is used by a streaming pipeline in a network interface controller to buffer segments of a data packet to allow the network interface controller to perform operations on the packet payload. The headers and packet payload can be scanned and classifie...