US Patent Issued to VMware on Aug. 26 for "Parsing logical network definition for different sites" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,886, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Parsing logical network definition for different sites" was invented by Ganesan Chandrashekhar (Campbell, Calif.), Pavlush Margarian (Dublin, Calif.), Amarnath Palavalli (Fremont, Calif.) and Josh Dorr (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for distributing a service rule that is to be enforced across a first set of sites and that is defined by reference to a group identifier that identifies a group of machines. The method distributes the service rule to each site in the first set of sites. The method identifies at lea...