US Patent Issued to VMware on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for distributed data network traffic optimization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,039, issued on March 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for distributed data network traffic optimization" was invented by Victor de Souza Lima e Silva (San Francisco), Archit Baweja (San Francisco) and Nithin Michael (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed include a method and apparatus for global traffic control and optimization for software-defined networks. In an embodiment, data traffic is optimized by distributing predefined metrics (data traffic information) to all controllers in the network. The predefined metrics are specific to local network switches and cont...