US Patent Issued to VMware on Aug. 12 for "Transaction controls for supplying control plane data to managed hardware forwarding element" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,743, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Transaction controls for supplying control plane data to managed hardware forwarding element" was invented by Anupam Chanda (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide novel methods for controllers to communicate with managed hardware forwarding elements (MHFEs) in a transactional manner. The transactional communication methods of some embodiments ensure that an MHFE receives the entirety of a control plane update that a controller supplies to it, before the MHFE starts to modify its data plane forwarding data and operations. The tr...