ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,262, issued on June 10, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Global policers" was invented by Niv Aibester (Herzliya, Israel), Aviv Kfir (Nili, Israel), Gil Levy (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Liron Mula (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for global policing of a bandwidth of a flow, the apparatus including a network device including a local policer configured to perform bandwidth policing on the flow within the network device, and a communications module configured to: send local policer state information from the local policer to a remote global policer, and receive policer state infor...