Patent 7558873 was granted and assigned to Nvidia on July, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Method for Internet Protocol Payload Compression (IPComp) and Large Send is described. More particularly, a Large Send initiated by a computer is used to trigger an IPComp negotiation. After agreement on IPComp, data blocks for such a Large Send are compressed in accordance with an agreed upon compression algorithm prior to being divided up into smaller blocks, such as being divided by a maximum transmission unit, for sending. To further improve performance, a intelligent network interface with Large Send and IPComp capabilities is used for offloading Large Send and IPComp functions.