ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,352, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Mice-elephant aware shared buffer schema" was invented by Niv Aibester (Herzliya, Israel), Gil Levy (Hod-Hasharon, Israel) and Aviv Kfir (Nili, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking device and system are described, among other things. An illustrative system is disclosed to include a shared buffer and at least a flow controller. In some embodiments, the system and/or flow controller may be configured to measure a packet flow's bandwidth consumption of the shared buffer, assign a flow-type attribute to the packet flow based on the pack...