ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,753, issued on June 24, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"ARP-based annotations for virtual machines" was invented by Arnold Poon (San Mateo, Calif.), Sirisha Myneni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rajiv Mordani (Fremont, Calif.) and Aditi Vutukuri (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for ARP-based annotations for virtual machines. In some solutions, a hypervisor implemented in a first host might determine that a first process is executing on the first host. The hypervisor can determine first context information for the first process, generate an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request, and/or transmit a...