Patent ID: 11956156
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method performed by a client including a processor having a plurality of cores coupled to system memory and a Network Interface Controller (NIC), comprising:
setting up a first connection between a first application on the client and a second application on a remote server, the first application executing on a first core;
allocating, in the system memory, a first offline packet buffer for offline packets associated with the first application;
while at least one of the processor and the first core is in a sleep state,
operating the client in an interrupt-less and polling-less mode as applied to a predetermined traffic class;
at the NIC,
receiving network traffic comprising a one or more packets from the remote server;
determining if the network traffic is associated with the predetermined traffic class;
when the network traffic is associated with the predetermined traffic class, writing packet data extracted from the network traffic to the first offline packet buffer.