US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 7 for "Metadata compaction in packet coalescing" (California, New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,960, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Metadata compaction in packet coalescing" was invented by David Keppel (Mountain View, Calif.), Chitra Natarajan (Queens Village, N.Y.) and Venkata Krishnan (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to coalescing one or more messages into a coalesced message and representing one or more fields of the metadata of the one or more messages using one or more codes, wherein at least one of the one or more codes uses fewer bits than that of original metadata fields to compact the metadata fields. In some examples, the metadata in...