ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,432, issued on July 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Bandwidth control inside a shared network interface card" was invented by Kent Lee (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Qiang Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart network interface card (smartNIC) may receive first traffic for a first process configured with a first bandwidth limit. The smartNIC may receive second traffic for a second process configured with a second bandwidth limit, the second bandwidth limit corresponding to a larger value between a second transmit limit and a second receive limit associated with the second pro...