US Patent Issued to XILINX on March 25 for "Descriptor fetching for a multi-queue direct memory access system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,833, issued on March 25, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Descriptor fetching for a multi-queue direct memory access system" was invented by Chandrasekhar S. Thyamagondlu (Saratoga, Calif.), Tao Yu (Campbell, Calif.), Chiranjeevi Sirandas (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nicholas Trank (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Descriptor fetch for a direct memory access system includes obtaining a descriptor for processing a received data packet. A determination is made as to whether the descriptor is a head descriptor of a chain descriptor. In response to determining that the descriptor is a head descriptor, one or more ...