ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,411, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Nicira Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Scaling gateway to gateway traffic using flow hash" was invented by Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Ly Loi (Los Altos, Calif.), Anirban Sengupta (Saratoga, Calif.), Yong Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Mike Parsa (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a network including multiple computers acting as tunnel endpoints in a network, some embodiments provide a method for processing data messages in parallel using multiple processors (e.g., cores) of each computer. Each computer in some embodiments has a set of interfaces configured as tunnel endpoints ...