ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,380, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Hardware acceleration techniques using flow selection" was invented by Aditi Ghag (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Srividya Murali (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives a packet for a flow associated with a workload. Based on an indicator for the flow, the method determines whether the flow corresponds to one of an elephant flow or a mice flow. Only when the flow is determined to correspond to an elephant flow, the method enables a hardware acceleration operation on the packet. The hardware acceleration operation may inc...