ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,681, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Extension of network control system into public cloud" was invented by Ganesan Chandrashekhar (Campbell, Calif.), Mukesh Hira (Palo Alto, Calif.), Su Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Akshay Katrekar (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for a first data compute node (DCN) operating in a public datacenter. The method receives an encryption rule from a centralized network controller. The method determines that the network encryption rule requires encryption of packets between second and third DCNs operating in the public...