US Patent Issued to VMware on Dec. 16 for "Multicast group membership control for a container environment" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,789, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VMware Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multicast group membership control for a container environment" was invented by Bin Liu (Beijing), Wenying Dong (Beijing), Ruochen Shen (Beijing), Quan Tian (Beijing) and Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides approaches for managing multicast group membership at a node. An approach includes policing whether a pod can join a multicast group based on one or more rules. The approach further includes updating forwarding tables of a virtual switch based on whether the pod is allowed to join the multicast group."

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