US Patent Issued to VMware on July 14 for "Defining service policies for third-party container clusters" (Chinese, Indian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,864, issued on July 14, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Defining service policies for third-party container clusters" was invented by Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.), Zhengsheng Zhou (Beijing), Yves Fauser (Munich), Satya Jain (Bangalore, India), Snehal Shankar More (Pune, India), Indresh Mishra (Pune, India), Wenfeng Liu (Beijing) and Donghai Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Policies are defined for a container cluster that is configured by a first software defined network (SDN) controller cluster. A second SDN controller cluster for defining service policies that are not defined by the first SDN cont...