US Patent Issued to VMware on Jan. 20 for "Managing multicast connections for containers in a computing network" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,758, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Managing multicast connections for containers in a computing network" was invented by Wenying Dong (Beijing), Lan Luo (Beijing), Ruochen Shen (Beijing), Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.) and Antonin Mathieu Bas (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage multicast communications for containers in a computing network. In one example, a first node is configured to monitor for registration packets from pods on the first node to join a multicast group. The first node further identifies a registra...