US Patent Issued to Red Hat on March 25 for "Efficient packet re-transmission for express data paths" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,925, issued on March 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Efficient packet re-transmission for express data paths" was invented by Jesper Brouer (Frederikssund, Denmark) and Michael Tsirkin (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to determining modification bounds that identify portions of a packet that are safe to modify so that modified portions of the packet may be flushed from a cache to a memory of a network interface card (NIC) of a host system when the entire packet is synchronized from the NIC. A modification bound of the filter may be determined, and a netwo...