ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,274, issued on May 20.
"Methods and systems for virtual top-of-rack implementation" was invented by Srinivas Vegesna (Sunyvale, Calif.), Jayaprakash Kumar (Bangalore, India), Pramod Venkatesh (Bangalore, India) and Naresh Kumar Thukkani (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method includes providing a first virtual machine on first server. With the first virtual machine, communicating a network traffic to a second virtual machine. With a virtual function (VF) on a physical network interface controller (pNIC) of the second server, assigning to the VLAN to a specified VF. A data packet is sent out of the pNIC ...