MUMBAI, India, June 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617061520 A) filed by International Business Machines Corporation on May 14, 2026, for Transmitting Data Using A Shared Network Adapter.
Inventors include Ratcliff, Bruce; Vangor, Dan; Valley, Stephen; Dubowsky, Margaret; Gassert, Francis; Stevens, Jerry; Tarcza, Richard; and Driever, Patricia.
The application for the patent was published on June 12, 2026, under issue no. 24/2026.
Abstract: Embodiments herein describe techniques for a host to provide TX packets to a shared adapter that then uses a NIC to forward the TX packet to a network. In one embodiment, the host creates or fills in one or more TX storage block page entries (SBPE) for the TX packet and stores an index of the TX SBPE in host memory. The host memory can also store an initiative state that tracks whether the shared adapter is currently processing TX packets. If not, the host can issue an interrupt to the shared adapter, along with the index associated with the TX SBPE. The shared adapter can then fetch the TX SBPE from host memory and program the NIC to transmit the TX packet.
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