US Patent Issued to VMware on July 14 for "Performing services on a host" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,970, issued on July 14, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Performing services on a host" was invented by Chidambareswaran Raman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raju Koganty (San Jose, Calif.) and Anirban Sengupta (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for performing services on a host computer that executes several data compute nodes (DCNs). The method receives, at a module executing on the host, a data message associated with a DCN executing on the host. The method supplies the data message to a service virtual machine (SVM) that executes on the host and on which several service ...