ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,139, issued on June 17, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Stateful services on stateless clustered edge" was invented by Mike Parsa (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jayant Jain (Cupertino, Calif.), Xinhua Hong (Milpitas, Calif.), Anirban Sengupta (Saratoga, Calif.) and Kai-Wei Fan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to enable dynamic scaling of network services at the edge, novel systems and methods are provided to enable addition of add new nodes or removal of existing nodes while retaining the affinity of the flows through the stateful services. The methods provide a cluster of network nodes that can be dy...