US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 21 for "Enhanced service node network infrastructure for L2/L3 GW in cloud" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,171, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced service node network infrastructure for L2/L3 GW in cloud" was invented by Xurui Huang (Shanghai), Bo Sun (Shanghai) and Yuefeng Jiang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) policies. Traffic is routed from a first VM to a first CGW within a Service Node, where the Service Node can include a centralized policy for both L2 functions and L3 functions, and the first CGW can integrate both L2 gateways and L3 gateways. Based on a floating...