US Patent Issued to VMware on Dec. 16 for "Underlay-based TCP segmentation offload in overlay networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,839, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Underlay-based TCP segmentation offload in overlay networks" was invented by Subin Cyriac Mathew (Palo Alto, Calif.), Boon Seong Ang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Wenyi Jiang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chidambareswaran Raman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jerome Catrouillet (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Sichen Song (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein include efficient data packet transmission between virtual machines ("VMs") on different hosts. An example method includes generating a large data packet at a source VM and determining a modified maximum se...