US Patent Issued to Red Hat on Dec. 2 for "Secure control of packet filter programs by user space processes in virtual machines" (Danish, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,842, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Secure control of packet filter programs by user space processes in virtual machines" was invented by Michael Tsirkin (Haifa, Israel) and Jesper Brouer (Frederikssund, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method may include: receiving, by a hypervisor, a data packet, identifying a memory location associated with a guest virtual machine and accessible to the guest virtual machine and the hypervisor, wherein a program mapping table comprising one or more mapping table entries is stored at the memory location, each mapping table entry specifying a program ...