ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,100, issued on April 22, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Network delay estimation" was invented by Yuval Shpigelman (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, data communication device includes a network interface to receive first packets over a network from another network device via a switch, which includes a buffer associated with a variable buffer delay, and packet processing circuitry to compute respective measures of delay over the network to the other network device over time responsively to the received first packets, find a minimum measure of delay over the network to the...