US Patent Issued to Oracle International on April 15 for "Internet group management protocol (IGMP) of a Layer-2 network in a virtualized cloud environment" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,758, issued on April 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Internet group management protocol (IGMP) of a Layer-2 network in a virtualized cloud environment" was invented by Jagwinder Singh Brar (Bellevue, Wash.), Lucas Michael Kreger-Stickles (Seattle), Bryce Eugene Bockman (Seattle), Peter Croft Jones (Lexington, Mass.) and Shane Baker (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for communications in an L2 virtual network. In an example, the L2 virtual network includes a plurality of L2 compute instances hosted on a set of host machines and a plurality of L2 virtual ne...