US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Queue bandwidth estimation for management of shared buffers and allowing visibility of shared buffer status" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,833, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Queue bandwidth estimation for management of shared buffers and allowing visibility of shared buffer status" was invented by Niv Aibester (Herzliya, Israel), Barak Gafni (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aviv Kfir (Nili, Israel) and Gil Levy (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device includes a memory and a memory management circuit. The memory is to store a shared buffer. The memory management circuit is to estimate respective bandwidth measures for one or more queues used in processing packets in the network device, and to allocate a...