ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,777, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Dynamically assigning machines to traffic groups based on edge capacity and machine priority" was invented by Chandan Ghosh (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for associating machines of a first network with gateways that connect the machines to an external second network. The method assigns first and second sets of machines to first and second traffic groups that are associated with first and second gateways. Based on statistics regarding data message load on the first gateway, the method identifies a first ...