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.

Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 22, 2019
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Prahalad Deshpande, Pune, IN;

Nikhil Bhalerao, Pune, IN;

Atul Jadhav, Pune, IN;

Abhijit Sharma, Pune, IN;

Shashank Ranjan, Pune, IN;

Assignee:

VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/0263 (2013.01); H04L 63/0236 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides an approach for creating one or more firewall rules to regulate communication between containers. The approach includes calculating a trust score for each container. To generate a rule for any two containers, a difference between the trust scores is computed, and if the difference in trust levels is too large, then the more trustworthy container is not allowed to communicate with the less trustworthy container. If the difference in trust scores is not too large, then the trustworthy container is allowed to communicate with the other trustworthy container, or an untrustworthy container is allowed to communicate with another untrustworthy container.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Loading…