US Patent Issued to VMWare on May 6 for "Methods and systems for establishing direct communications between a server computer and a smart network interface controller" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,845, issued on May 6, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for establishing direct communications between a server computer and a smart network interface controller" was invented by Chengjian Wen (Beijing), Qin Li (Beijing), Hao Huang (Beijing) and Shu Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes processes for performing direct memory access ("DMA") between memory of a host and memory of a smart network interface controller ("SNIC") connected to a bus of the host. The host runs a host thread in a processor of the host and the SNIC runs a SNIC thread in a processor of the SNIC. T...