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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:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2018
Applicant:
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Inventor:
Gang Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Grand Cayman, KY;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/825 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/743 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/25 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 43/16 (2013.01); H04L 45/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/7453 (2013.01);
Abstract
Apparatuses and methods comprise receiving traffic from multiple virtual machines (VMs) associated with a same identification (ID); mapping the ID into a destination Internet Protocol (IP) address; and forwarding the traffic from the multiple VMs to a first gateway instance announcing the destination IP address.