US Patent Issued to VMWare on May 13 for "Managing network traffic in virtual switches based on logical port identifiers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,479, issued on May 13, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Managing network traffic in virtual switches based on logical port identifiers" was invented by Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Ganesan Chandrashekhar (Campbell, Calif.), Anirban Sengupta (Saratoga, Calif.), Pankaj Thakkar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Alexander Tessmer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance network traffic management. In one implementation, a first host identifies a packet to be transferred from a first virtual machine on the first host to a second virtual machine on a second ho...