US Patent Issued to SambaNova Systems on Aug. 26 for "Two-level arbitration in a computing system" (Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,860, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Two-level arbitration in a computing system" was invented by Manish K. Shah (Austin, Texas) and John Philipp Baxley (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a first network, a second network, multiple first agents connected to the first network, multiple second agents connected to the second network, and an interface circuit interconnecting the two networks. The interface circuit includes multiple request queues, a first arbiter for selecting requests from the second agents for transactions on the first network and e...