ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,275, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Application based egress interface selection" was invented by Madhusudhan Ravi (San Jose, Calif.), Wilson Wang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Rajeev Nair (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selecting an egress interface for a source process running on an electronic device is provided. The device implements a TCP/IP stack utilized by a plurality of applications for sending network packets. The method receives a packet from a particular application in the plurality of applications to send to a network destination over a socket tagged with an id...