ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,952, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"High throughput ingress datapath for a virtual machine" was invented by Peng Li (Fremont, Calif.), Ronak Doshi (San Jose, Calif.), Guolin Yang (San Jose, Calif.) and Boon S. Ang (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method of forwarding data messages to a machine that executes on a host computer and has an associated virtual network interface controller (VNIC) also executing on the host computer. The method retrieves data messages from a queue associated with the VNIC and stores these data messages in a first set of buffer dat...