US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Oct. 7 for "Load-based management for NVME over TCP connections" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,806, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Load-based management for NVME over TCP connections" was invented by Qiang Wang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kent Lee (Ladera Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems, methods and computer readable media relate to managing Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) (NVMeOTCP) connections between a smart network interface card (smartNIC) and a block storage data plane (BSDP) of a cloud computing environment. A software agent ("agent") executing at the smartNIC may manage a number of network pa...