ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,484, issued on March 24, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"General network policy for namespaces" was invented by Danting Liu (Beijing), Qian Sun (Beijing), Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.), Wenfeng Liu (Beijing) and Donghai Han (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system and method for controlling network traffic among namespaces in which various entities, such as virtual machines, pod virtual machines, and a container orchestration system, such as Kubernetes, reside and operate. The entities have access to a network that includes one or more firewalls. The traffic that is permitted to fl...