ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,716, issued on May 12, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Implementing communications within a container environment" was invented by Trung Hoai Nguyen (Cedar Park, Texas), Devon Howard Crouse (Broomfield, Colo.) and Sohan Patil (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for implementing a container environment where each pod within the container environment is provided with a unique IP address and a virtual communication device such as an IPvlan device. Communications from source pods are directly routed to destination pods within the container environment by one or more virtua...