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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kai Hong Du, Shanghai, CN;

Xiao Jian Nie, Shanghai, CN;

Shashi Pratap Singh, Shanghai, CN;

Xiao Li Xu, Shanghai, CN;

Ying Lin Xu, Nanjing, CN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 12/947 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 41/5054 (2013.01); H04L 45/66 (2013.01); H04L 49/25 (2013.01); H04L 49/503 (2013.01); H04L 41/5077 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: providing a distributed virtual gateway for Network Virtualization over Layer 3 (NVO3) network. A gateway stack having three or more nodes is implemented as a distributed virtual gateway, providing Layer 2 or Layer 3 gateway services in a fail-safe manner. Nodes of the gateway stack are configured to autonomously process and forward inbound NVO3 data packets with known destination addresses without engaging a master of the gateway stack.


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