ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,925, issued on May 13, was assigned to Marvell Asia PTE LTD (Singapore).
"Packet processing system, method and device utilizing a port client chain" was invented by Enrique Musoll (San Jose, Calif.) and Tsahi Daniel (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet processing system having each of a plurality of hierarchical clients and a packet memory arbiter serially communicatively coupled together via a plurality of primary interfaces thereby forming a unidirectional client chain. This chain is then able to be utilized by all of the hierarchical clients to write the packet data to or read the packet data from the packet ...