US Patent Issued to F5 on June 3 for "Managing network ports in a virtualization environment" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,291, issued on June 3, was assigned to F5 Inc. (Seattle).

"Managing network ports in a virtualization environment" was invented by Ryan Robert Howard (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology related managing network ports in a virtualization environment is disclosed. In one example, a method includes, without using operating system control, bonding a plurality of physical ports into a link aggregation group accessible from a network interface. A device function can be assigned to a virtual machine. The device function can be used for communicating between the network interface and the virtual machine via an interconne...