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. 15, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kamalika Das, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arnold Koon-Chee Poon, San Mateo, CA (US);
Farzad Ghannadian, Burlingame, CA (US);
VMWARE INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In one set of embodiments, a host system can perform a random walk along a graph representing network traffic in a virtual network, where the virtual network comprises a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) running on a plurality of host systems including the host system, and where the random walk starts from a node of the graph corresponding to a VM running on the host system. The host system can further construct, based on the random walk, a local neighborhood of VMs associated with the VM and determine, based on the local neighborhood, whether the VM is a localized VM. Upon determining that the VM is not a localized VM, the host system can transmit a random walk data entry identifying the VM and the local neighborhood to a server communicatively coupled with the plurality of host systems.