ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,680, issued on June 24, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Service operation chaining" was invented by Sami Boutros (Union City, Calif.), Pere Monclus (Union City, Calif.), Philip Kippen (Fall City, Wash.), Dharma Rajan (North Miami Beach, Fla.) and Yashika Narang (Fall City, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for forwarding tenant traffic through a set of service machines to perform a set of service operations on the tenant traffic. In some embodiments, the method performs a classification operation on a data message flow of a te...