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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2000
Sanjay Anand, Redmond, WA (US);
N K Srinivas, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jameel Hyder, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kyle E. Brandon, Madison, WI (US);
Sanjay Anand, Redmond, WA (US);
N K Srinivas, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jameel Hyder, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kyle E. Brandon, Madison, WI (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Offloading specific processing tasks that would otherwise be performed in a computer system's processor and memory, to a peripheral device. The computing task is then performed by the peripheral, thereby saving computer system resources for other computing tasks. In one preferred embodiment, the disclosed method is utilized in a layered network model, wherein computing tasks that are typically performed in network applications are instead offloaded to the network interface card (NIC) peripheral.