US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 28 for "NIC priority queue steering and processor unit frequency tuning based on packet flow analytics" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,178, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"NIC priority queue steering and processor unit frequency tuning based on packet flow analytics" was invented by David Coyle (Limerick, Ireland), Brendan Ryan (Westbury, Ireland), John J. Browne (Limerick, Ireland), Jeffery G. Oliver (Happy Valley, Ore.), Pallavi Manaji Kadam (Portland, Ore.) and Sunku Ranganath (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system comprises a network interface controller comprising circuitry to determine per-flow analytics information for a plurality of packet flows that are received at the network inter...