ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,771, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Overseas Funding Corp. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"In-network computing with reduction operation by switch" was invented by Yanai Pomeranz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Itay Zur (Hod Hasharon, Ill.) and Shlomo Raikin (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch can perform reduction operation in a network of compute blocks. The switch receives data packets from some compute blocks and stores the data packets in one or more buffers. In response to receiving by the switch a new data packet, the switch determines whether the buffers have sufficient storage to store another data packet. In e...