US Patent Issued to Kyndryl on Nov. 25 for "Multi-tenant aware dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) mechanism for cloud networking" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,529, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Multi-tenant aware dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) mechanism for cloud networking" was invented by Liang Rong (Jiangsu, China), Gang Tang (Nanjing, China), Zi J. Tao (Wuxi, China) and Ming S. Xian (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach within the embodiments of the present invention includes providing multi-tenancy support on a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) protocol, and further includes receiving the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) packet, inserting a tenant-specific option information within the DHCP packet, and tra...