US Patent Issued to Nicira on Feb. 4 for "Address resolution using multiple designated instances of a logical router" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,834, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Nicira Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Address resolution using multiple designated instances of a logical router" was invented by Vivek Agarwal (Campbell, Calif.), Ganesan Chandrashekhar (Campbell, Calif.), Rahul Korivi Subramaniyam (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ram Dular Singh (San Jose, Calif.) and Howard Wang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A logical routing element (LRE) having multiple designated instances for routing packets from physical hosts (PH) to a logical network is provided. A PH in a network segment with multiple designated instances can choose among the multiple designated in...