US Patent Issued to Fortinet on Jan. 20 for "Link-level network virtualization architecture for large-scale network function virtualization applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,786, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Link-level network virtualization architecture for large-scale network function virtualization applications" was invented by Jie Zheng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hongbin Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtualized network function (VNF) of a network function virtualization (NFV) link level architecture includes a management plane function (MPF) to map a logical interface as a virtual interface in a control plane function (CPF) of the VNF. The MPF maps a logical resource of the NFV virtualization link level architecture as a shadow resource...