ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,917, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Path selection for packet transmission" was invented by Anurag Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.), John Andrew Fingerhut (Cary, N.C.), Xiaoyan Ding (Lantau Island, Hong Kong) and Song Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device comprising a multi-stage programmable packet processing pipeline circuitry to determine a path to transmit a packet based on relative network traffic transmitted via multiple paths. In some examples, determine a path to transmit a packet is based on Deficit Round Robin (DRR). In...