US Patent Issued to VMware on Jan. 20 for "Secure scalable bi-directional command control across networks" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,850, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Secure scalable bi-directional command control across networks" was invented by Paul Allen (Seattle) and John Calixto (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an approach for inter-network command control. Embodiments include receiving, by a proxy component of a service, from an agent of the service, a request to retrieve one or more action definitions. The agent may be located in a private networking environment, and the proxy component may be located in a networking environment external to the private networking environment. Embodiments ...