Barefoot Networks/Intel Assigned Patent

Barefoot Networks, Inc. (acquired by Intel Corp.), Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,019,172) developed by Bhide, Parag D., San Ramon, CA, Loge, Alain, South Lake Tahoe, CA, Kodeboyina, Chaitanya, Los Altos, CA, and Agrawal, Anurag, Santa Clara, CA, for “storing packet data in mirror buffer.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Some embodiments provide a method for a hardware forwarding element. Based on a set of characteristics of a packet, the method determines to copy a packet to a particular temporary storage of a set of temporary storages of the hardware forwarding element. Based on a property of the particular temporary storage, the method stores only a particular portion of the packet in the particular temporary storage. A same size portion of each packet copied to the particular temporary storage is stored in the particular temporary storage.”

The patent application was filed on August 14, 2020 (Appl. No.16/994,353).