US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 9 for "Offloading network address translation and firewall rules to tier-1 routers for gateway optimization" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,527, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Offloading network address translation and firewall rules to tier-1 routers for gateway optimization" was invented by Gaurav Jindal (Pune, India), Chandan Ghosh (Bangalore, India), Neeraj Mantri (Pune, India) and Rajesh Sahu (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an approach for gateway optimization. Embodiments include receiving, at a first gateway associated with a first tenant within a data center, a packet directed to a first public network address of an endpoint associated with a second tenant within the data center. Embod...