US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 25 for "Efficient topology-aware tree search algorithm for a broadcast operation" (Texas, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,492, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient topology-aware tree search algorithm for a broadcast operation" was invented by Gengbin Zheng (Austin, Texas) and Maria Garzaran (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for efficient topology-aware tree search algorithm for a broadcast operation. A broadcast tree for a broadcast operation in a network having a hierarchical structure including nodes logically partitioned at group and switch levels. Lists of visited nodes (vnodes) and unvisited nodes (unodes) are initialized. Beginning at a root node, search iterations ar...