US Patent Issued to VMware on Aug. 11 for "Automatic health check and performance monitoring for applications and protocols using deep packet inspection in a datacenter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,820, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Automatic health check and performance monitoring for applications and protocols using deep packet inspection in a datacenter" was invented by Alok S. Tiagi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Anirban Sengupta (Saratoga, Calif.), Srinivas Nimmagadda (San Jose, Calif.) and Rick Lund (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of collecting health check metrics for a network is provided. The method, at a deep packet inspector on a physical host in a datacenter, receives a copy of a network packet from a load balancer. The packet in...