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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2017
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kaushal Bansal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sunitha Krishna, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jerry Pereira, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shadab Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Subrahmanyam Manuguri, San Jose, CA (US);
Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);
NICIRA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
The technology disclosed herein enables the enhancement of attributes used to identify network packet traffic exchanged with micro segmented guests. In a particular embodiment, a method provides receiving a plurality of attributes from a user. The plurality of attributes describes first network packet traffic that should be handled in a first manner. The method further provides processing network packet traffic to identify the first network packet traffic using the plurality of attributes. While processing the network packet traffic, the method provides identifying one or more additional attributes shared among the first network packet traffic and adding at least a portion of the one or more additional attributes to the plurality of attributes.