ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,642, issued on July 8, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Detecting and handling large flows" was invented by Teemu Koponen (San Francisco), Justin Pettit (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Martin Casado (Portola Valley, Calif.), Bruce Davie (Melbourne, Australia) and W. Andrew Lambeth (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a forwarding element that detects and handles elephant flows. In detecting, the forwarding element of some embodiments monitors statistics or measurements relating to a data flow. In handling, the forwarding element marks each packet associated with a detected elephant flow in ...