US Patent Issued to VMware on Jan. 28 for "Dynamic grouping of network segments for forwarding data message flows from machines of network segment groups to an external network through different edge forwarding elements" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,494, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Dynamic grouping of network segments for forwarding data message flows from machines of network segment groups to an external network through different edge forwarding elements" was invented by Chandan Ghosh (Bangalore, India), Anantha Mohan Raj (Bangalore, India), Gaurav Jindal (Pune, India), Siddhant Verma (Bangalore, India) and Saurabh Garg (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for dynamically deploying gateways for a first network connecting machines. The first network includes segments, routers, and a first...