US Patent Issued to VMware on Aug. 25 for "Scaling for split-networking datapath" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,746, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Scaling for split-networking datapath" was invented by Yong Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Cheng-Chun Tu (Redwood City, Calif.), Sreeram Kumar Ravinoothala (San Jose, Calif.) and Yu Ying (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for implementing an edge device that handles data traffic between a logical network and an external network. The method monitors resource usage of a node pool that includes multiple nodes that each executes a respective set of pods. Each of the pods is for performing a respective set ...