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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Calvin Qian, San Jose, CA (US);
Ganesan Chandrashekhar, Campbell, CA (US);
Sanal Pillai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kishore Kankipati, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sujatha Sundararaman, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nicira, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/164 (2013.01); H04L 63/0272 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/166 (2013.01); H04L 63/205 (2013.01); H04L 63/06 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to a first host machine exchanging a Security Parameter Index (SPI) value with a second host machine by storing the SPI in an options field of an encapsulation header of an encapsulated packet.