ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,404, issued on July 29, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).
"Flow-based congestion control" was invented by Niv Aibester (Herzliya, Israel), Gil Levy (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Yuval Shpigelman (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes multiple ports, a Shared Buffer (SB) and a SB controller. The ports to connect to a communication network. The SB to temporarily store packets received from the communication network via the ports, the packets belonging to multiple flows. The SB controller to allocate one or more flow-specific storage regions in the SB, a given flow-specific stor...