US Patent Issued to VMware on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for using a network information base to control a plurality of shared network infrastructure switching elements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,871, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for using a network information base to control a plurality of shared network infrastructure switching elements" was invented by Martin Casado (Portola Valley, Calif.), Teemu Koponen (San Francisco), Jeremy Stribling (San Francisco) and Natasha Gude (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network control system that includes several controllers for managing several switching elements. Each controller includes a network information base (NIB) storage that stores data regarding the switching elements and a secondary storage for facil...