US Patent Issued to VMware on Nov. 3 for "Network controller as a service (NCaaS) to define network policies for third-party container clusters" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,068, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Network controller as a service (NCaaS) to define network policies for third-party container clusters" was invented by Zhengsheng Zhou (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: "Some embodiments provide a method for using a first SDN controller as a Network Controller as a Service (NCaaS). The first SDN controller receives a first set of network attributes regarding network elements in a first container cluster configured by a second SDN controller, and a second set of network attri...