US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on March 31 for "Group-based policy encoding for network virtualization overlays" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,882, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Group-based policy encoding for network virtualization overlays" was invented by Harish Pandey (Bangalore, India) and Vinod Kumar Mahadev Gornal (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device of a first data center may encode a source tenant system interface (TSI) group identifier into a tag protocol identifier and a group-based policy identifier, and may encode the tag protocol identifier and the group-based policy identifier into a virtual extensible local area network (VXLAN) packet with the source TSI group id...