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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2022
Applicant:

Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., Yokneam, IL;

Inventors:

Niv Aibester, Herzliya, IL;

Gil Levy, Hod Hasharon, IL;

Yuval Shpigelman, Netanya, IL;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/12 (2022.01); H04L 47/30 (2022.01); H04L 47/62 (2022.01); H04L 47/6295 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/12 (2013.01); H04L 47/30 (2013.01); H04L 47/621 (2013.01); H04L 47/6295 (2013.01);
Abstract

A network device includes multiple ports, a Shared Buffer (SB) and a SB controller. The ports to connect to a communication network. The SB to temporarily store packets received from the communication network via the ports, the packets belonging to multiple flows. The SB controller to allocate one or more flow-specific storage regions in the SB, a given flow-specific storage region being allocated to store the packets that (i) belong to respective one or more of the flows and (ii) are to be transmitted via a respective egress queue. In response to detecting that an occupancy level in the given flow-specific storage region exceeds a specified occupancy threshold, the SB controller to report the flows in the given flow-specific storage region as congested.


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