US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on Nov. 11 for "Extending switch fabric processing to network interface cards" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,474, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Extending switch fabric processing to network interface cards" was invented by Raja Kommula (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuvaraja Mariappan (San Jose, Calif.), Thayumanavan Sridhar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raj Yavatkar (Los Gatos, Calif.), Dilip Sundarraj (San Mateo, Calif.) and Vikram Singh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system comprises a plurality of servers comprising respective network interface cards (NICs) connected by physical links in a physical topology, wherein each NIC of the plurality of NICs comprises an embedded switch ...