ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,625, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Cross cluster connectivity" was invented by Lan Luo (Beijing), Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.), Jiajing Hu (Beijing), Wenfeng Liu (Beijing) and Donghai Han (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for exchanging network information between member clusters include configuring a gateway pool of a member cluster, the gateway pool comprising a plurality of gateway nodes, the member cluster comprising the plurality of gateway nodes and one or more nodes, configuring a gateway node of the plurality of gateway nodes as an active gateway node for ...