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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:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2019
Applicant:
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ravi Kumar Reddy Kottapalli, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/751 (2013.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1441 (2013.01); H04L 45/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04L 63/1408 (2013.01); H04L 61/6068 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and software to implement network configuration updates in a computing network. In one implementation, a method includes identifying a threat related to an internet protocol (IP) address, wherein the IP address corresponds to a computing node in the computing network. After identifying the threat, the method further includes generates one or more routing update packets that indicate a block request for at least the IP address. Once generated, the method also provides communicating the one or more routing update packets to one or more routers in the computing network.