US Patent Issued to VMware on Feb. 4 for "WAN optimization for encrypted data traffic using fully homomorphic encryption" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,915, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"WAN optimization for encrypted data traffic using fully homomorphic encryption" was invented by Igor Golikov (Kfar Saba, Israel), Aran Bergman (Givatayim, Israel), Lior Gal (Yoqneam Illit, Israel), Avishay Yanai (Petach-Tikva, Israel), Israel Cidon (San Francisco), Alex Markuze (Rosh HaAyin, Israel) and Eyal Zohar (Shimshit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for WAN (wide area network) optimization for a WAN that connects multiple sites, each of which has at least one router. At a gateway router deployed to a ...