ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,380, issued on July 29, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Host polling of a network adapter" was invented by David James Riddoch (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Derek Edward Roberts (Cambridge, Great Britain), Kieran Mansley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Steven Leslie Pope (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Sebastian Turullols (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe a host that polls a network adapter to receive data from a network. That is, the host/CPU/application thread polls the network adapter (e.g., the network card, NIC, or SmartNIC) to determine whether a packet has been receive...