ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,819, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"MAC learning for cross-site layer-2 connectivity" was invented by Jesse Schachter (Little Elm, Texas), Chung-Shang Shao (Hayward, Calif.) and Siddharth Sudhir Ekbote (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mac learning for cross-site layer-2 connectivity. Some embodiments provide a method for enabling data traffic to be sent between across which a logical network spans. A logical network segment (i.e., a layer-2 network segment such as a logical switch) spans at least two sites via tunnels between network elements deployed in the sites that operate as bri...