US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Head-of-queue blocking for multiple lossless queues" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,343, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Head-of-queue blocking for multiple lossless queues" was invented by Liron Mula (Ramat Gan, Israel), Lion Levi (Yavne, Israel) and Yuval Shpigelman (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network element includes a transmit-queue for transmitting packets from at least two sources, each source having a predefined priority level, to a headroom buffer in a peer network element. Flow-control circuitry receives from the peer network element signaling that indicates a number of credits for transmitting packets to the peer network element, manag...