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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 23, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jayant Jain, Cupertino, CA (US);

Russell Lu, Pleasanton, CA (US);

Ly Loi, Los Altos, CA (US);

Rick Lund, Livermore, CA (US);

Sushruth Gopal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/41 (2022.01); H04L 47/2483 (2022.01); H04L 43/062 (2022.01); H04L 43/026 (2022.01); H04L 47/2441 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/41 (2013.01); H04L 43/026 (2013.01); H04L 43/062 (2013.01); H04L 47/2441 (2013.01); H04L 47/2483 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments provide a novel method for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a plurality of host computers to an analysis appliance. Each host computer, in some embodiments, is responsible for collecting and reporting attributes of data flows associated with machines executing on a host computer. In some embodiments, the host computer includes a flow exporter that processes and publishes flow data to the analysis appliance, a set of agents for collecting context data relating to the flows from machines executing on the host, a set of additional modules that provide additional context data, an anomaly detection engine that analyzes flow data and context data and provides additional context data, and a context exporter for processing and publishing context data to the analysis appliance.


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