Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network functions virtualization platforms with function chaining capabilities
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Application No.: US16683093Application Date: 2019-11-13
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Publication No.: US10963291B2Publication Date: 2021-03-30
- Inventor: Abdel Hafiz Rabi , Allen Chen , Mark Jonathan Lewis , Jiefan Zhang
- Applicant: Altera Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA San José
- Assignee: Altera Corporation
- Current Assignee: Altera Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San José
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F13/40
- IPC: G06F13/40 ; G06F9/455 ; G06F13/28

Abstract:
A virtualization platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is provided. The virtualization platform may include a host processor coupled to an acceleration coprocessor. The acceleration coprocessor may be a reconfigurable integrated circuit to help provide improved flexibility and agility for the NFV. The coprocessor may include multiple virtual function hardware acceleration modules each of which is configured to perform a respective accelerator function. A virtual machine running on the host processor may wish to perform multiple accelerator functions in succession at the coprocessor on a given data. In one suitable arrangement, intermediate data output by each of the accelerator functions may be fed back to the host processor. In another suitable arrangement, the successive function calls may be chained together so that only the final resulting data is fed back to the host processor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200183727A1 NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORMS WITH FUNCTION CHAINING CAPABILITIES Public/Granted day:2020-06-11
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