Patents by Inventor Hugh Miller Wilkinson, III

Hugh Miller Wilkinson, III has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • On-device packet descriptor cache
    Patent number: 7426610
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides in response to receiving a packet at a packet processing device having a memory (“on-device memory”), storing the packet at a location in a memory not on the packet processing device (“off-device memory”); creating a packet descriptor corresponding to the packet, the packet descriptor referencing the location; storing the packet descriptor in a packet descriptor queue on the off-device memory; and storing a packet descriptor copy on the on-device memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sridhar Lakshmanamurthy, Hugh Miller Wilkinson, III