ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,444, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Smart NIC responding to requests from client device" was invented by Alex Markuze (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Shay Vargaftik (Herzliya, Israel), Igor Golikov (Kfar Saba, Israel), Yaniv Ben-Itzhak (Afek, Israel) and Avishay Yanai (Petach-Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for transmitting data at a network interface controller (NIC) of a computer that operates as a server. The computer includes multiple storage devices. The method receives a request from a client device for a particular file. The method translates the partic...