The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2017
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Weiqing Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Aravind Srinivasan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Leon Cui, Beijing, CN;
Todd Sabin, Morganville, NJ (US);
Serge Maskalik, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sachin Thakkar, San Jose, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for stateful connection optimization over stretched networks are disclosed. In one embodiment, hypervisor filtering modules in a cloud computing system are configured to modify packets sent by virtual computing instances (e.g., virtual machines (VMs)) in the cloud to local destinations in the cloud such that those packets have the destination Media Access Control (MAC) address of a local router that is also in the cloud. Doing so prevents tromboning traffic flows in which packets sent by virtual computing instances in the cloud to location destinations are routed to a stretched network's default gateway that is not in the cloud.