US 12,218,843 B2
Offload of acknowledgements to a network device
Bo Cui, Shanghai (CN); and Stephen Doyle, Ennis (IE)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 5, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/405,746.
Application 18/405,746 is a continuation of application No. 17/011,964, filed on Sep. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,909,642.
Prior Publication US 2024/0275724 A1, Aug. 15, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 47/12 (2022.01); H04L 1/1812 (2023.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/12 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1812 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed at a network interface, the method comprising:
for a received packet:
based on the received packet only including one or more frames for which acknowledgement of receipt is offloaded to the network interface, generating an acknowledgement (ACK) message to acknowledge receipt of the received packet, wherein the one or more frames for which acknowledgement of receipt is offloaded to the network interface include at least one frame compatible with quick User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Internet Connections (QUIC) and
based on the received packet including a frame for which acknowledgement of receipt is not offloaded to the network interface, providing the received packet to a computing platform.