US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Hardware-accelerated flexible steering rules over service function chaining (SFC)" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,480, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Hardware-accelerated flexible steering rules over service function chaining (SFC)" was invented by Chen Rozenbaum (Be'er Ya'akov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for configuring flexible hardware-accelerated rules in a Service Function Chaining (SFC) architecture are described. A DPU includes an acceleration hardware engine to provide a single accelerated data plane, and a processing device that generates a first virtual bridge and a second virtual bridge. The first virtual bridge is controlled by a first network service hosted o...