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

Claim 9:
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
setting up a second connection between a third application on the client and the second application or a fourth application on the remote server, the second application executing on a second core;
allocating, in the system memory, a second offline packet buffer associated with the third application;
while at least one of the processor and the second core is in a sleep state,
operating the client in an interrupt-less and polling-less mode as applied to the 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, determining whether the packet data should be written to the first offline packet buffer or the second offline packet buffer and writing packet data extracted from the network traffic to that offline packet buffer.