US Patent Issued to VMware on Oct. 6 for "Distributed network address translation for efficient cloud service access" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,681, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Distributed network address translation for efficient cloud service access" was invented by Jun Xiao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coordinating distributed network address translation (NAT) in a network within which several logical networks are implemented. The logical networks include several tenant logical networks and at least one service logical network that include service virtual machines (VMs) that are accessed by VMs of the tenant logical networks. The method defines a group of replacement IP address and port number pairs. Each pair ...