US Patent Issued to VMware on Nov. 25 for "Bringing NUMA awareness to load balancing in overlay networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,505, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Bringing NUMA awareness to load balancing in overlay networks" was invented by Subin Cyriac Mathew (San Jose, Calif.) and Chidambareswaran Raman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a novel method for forwarding data messages between first and second host computers. To send, to a first machine executing on the first host computer, a flow from a second machine executing on the second host computer, the method identifies a destination network address of the flow. The method uses the identified destination network address to id...