US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Feb. 11 for "Method and apparatus for flexible and efficient analytics in a network switch" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,941, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for flexible and efficient analytics in a network switch" was invented by Weihuang Wang (Los Gatos, Calif.), Gerald Schmidt (San Jose, Calif.), Tsahi Daniel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Saurabh Shrivastava (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to a centralized network analytic device, the centralized network analytic device efficiently uses on-chip memory to flexibly perform counting, traffic rate monitoring and flow sampling. The device includes a pool of memory that is shared by all core...