US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 1 for "Method and apparatus for providing a service with a plurality of service nodes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,402, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for providing a service with a plurality of service nodes" was invented by Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Anirban Sengupta (Saratoga, Calif.) and Mohan Parthasarathy (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide an elastic architecture for providing a service in a computing system. To perform a service on the data messages, the service architecture uses a service node (SN) group that includes one primary service node (PSN) and zero or more secondary service nodes (SSNs). The service can be performed on a data m...