Nicholas David Wood

Title: Innovations by Nicholas David Wood

Introduction

Nicholas David Wood is an accomplished inventor based in Woodinville, WA (US). He has made significant contributions to the field of technology, particularly in virtualization and load balancing. With a total of 3 patents to his name, Wood's work has had a notable impact on the industry.

Latest Patents

One of Wood's latest patents is titled "Hypervisor flow steering for address sharing." This invention relates to hypervisors that provide hardware isolated virtualization environments (HIVEs), such as containers and virtual machines (VMs). In this patent, a first HIVE includes a first virtual network interface card (NIC), while a second HIVE includes a second virtual NIC. Both virtual NICs are backed by the same physical NIC, which has an Internet Protocol (IP) address. The virtual NICs are assigned the same IP address as the physical NIC. The networking stack of the hypervisor receives inbound packets addressed to the IP address and steers them to the virtual NICs according to tuples of the inbound packets. Packets emitted by the virtual NICs comprise the IP address, pass through the network stack, and are transmitted by the physical NIC with headers that include the IP address.

Another significant patent by Wood is the "Non-DSR distributed load balancer with virtualized VIPS and source proxy on load balanced connection." This invention involves methods and devices for load balancing connections. It includes receiving data packets based on a destination IP address that corresponds to multiple container hosts. The methods involve selecting a destination container from at least one container host on the computer device and other devices in communication with it over a virtual network to balance the data load. Additionally, it translates the source IP address of the data packet to a local IP address of the container host and changes the destination IP address to a virtual IP address of the selected destination container, transforming the data packet into a proxy data packet.

Career Highlights

Nicholas David Wood is currently employed at Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, where he continues to innovate and develop new technologies. His work at Microsoft has allowed him to explore various aspects of virtualization and networking, contributing to the advancement of the field.

Collaborations

Throughout his career, Wood has collaborated with talented individuals such as Gerardo Diaz-Cuellar and Dinesh Kumar Govindasamy. These collaborations have