ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,436, issued on April 15, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Integrating virtualization and host networking" was invented by Junfei Wu (Beijing), Yan Wang (Beijing) and Haitao Zuo (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for integrating virtual machine (VM) and host networking, forwarding port data and occupation status to host and VM endpoints. Examples synchronize, by a host agent, port reservations with a guest agent on a first VM on the host; receive an indication that a VM port on the first VM is occupied; based at least on receiving the indication that the VM port is occupied, update the port ...