US Patent Issued to VMware on Oct. 7 for "High-availability egress access with consistent source IP addresses for workloads" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,842, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"High-availability egress access with consistent source IP addresses for workloads" was invented by Quan Tian (Beijing), Jianjun Shen (Redwood City, Calif.), Donghai Han (Beijing), Shuyang Xin (Shanghai) and Wenqi Qiu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for configuring an egress node for an egress pod set comprising one or more pods are provided. The egress pod set may be allocated one or more egress internet protocol (IP) addresses. The egress node may be selected among nodes of a cluster including the one or more pods. The egress node may ...