US Patent Issued to VMWare on June 17 for "Methods and systems to offload overlay network packet encapsulation to hardware" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,066, issued on June 17, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to offload overlay network packet encapsulation to hardware" was invented by Shoby Cherian (Dublin, Calif.), Raghavendra Subbarao Narahari Venkata (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tanuja Ingale (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for offloading packet encapsulation for an overlay network is provided. The method, at a virtualization software of a host, sends a mapping table of the overlay network to a physical network interface controller (NIC) associated with the host. The mapping table maps the identification of each of a set ...