US Patent Issued to VMware on Sept. 30 for "Hybrid and efficient method to sync NAT sessions" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,171, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Hybrid and efficient method to sync NAT sessions" was invented by Saurav Suri (Bangalore, India) and Varun Lakkur Ambaji Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method of synchronizes network address translation (NAT) records between an active gateway and a standby gateway. The method of some embodiments synchronizes NAT records of long-term data flows more frequently than those of short-term flows. Multiple data flows pass between a device at an internal source address and a device at an external destination address through the active NAT gat...