Patent · US Active

Technologies for managing network statistic counters

US10768841B2 · kind B2 · utility

1Cited by
0References
25Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateSep 30, 2017
Grant dateSep 8, 2020
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 27, 2038

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L47/78
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Technologies for managing network statistic counters include a network interface controller (NIC) of a computing device configured to identify a statistic counter of and a software consumer associated with a received network packet and identify an active counter page as a function of the identified software consumer. The NIC is further configured to read a value of the statistic counter stored at a counter memory address of a corresponding counter identifier entry of the identified active counter page, increment a read value of the statistic counter, and write the incremented value of the statistic counter back to the counter memory address. Additionally, in response to detecting a notification triggering event, generating a notification message that includes a present value of the statistic counter and a present value of each of the other statistic counters of the active counter page, and transmit the generated notification message to the software consumer. Other embodiments are described herein.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.