Barefoot Networks Assigned Patent

Barefoot Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,230,810) developed by Bhide, Parag D., San Ramon, CA, Loge, Alain, Mountain View, CA, Kodeboyina, Chaitanya, Los Altos, CA, and Agrawal, Anurag, Santa Clara, CA, for a “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 May 22, 2016 (15/161,263).