US Patent Issued to VMWare on June 3 for "Replicating broadcast, unknown-unicast, and multicast traffic in overlay logical networks bridged with physical networks" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,260, issued on June 3, was assigned to VMWare LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Replicating broadcast, unknown-unicast, and multicast traffic in overlay logical networks bridged with physical networks" was invented by Alexander Tessmer (Mountain View, Calif.), Mukesh Hira (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rajiv Krishnamurthy (San Jose, Calif.), Ram Dular Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Xuan Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hua Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel method for performing replication of messages in a network that bridges one or more physical networks to an overlay logical network is provided. A physical gateway provides bridging be...