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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:
Feb. 13, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2020
Applicant:

Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sami Boutros, Union City, CA (US);

Anirban Sengupta, Saratoga, CA (US);

Mani Kancherla, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jerome Catrouillet, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Sri Mohana Singamsetty, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 61/251 (2022.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 61/251 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); H04L 69/22 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01); H04L 2212/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel network architecture for providing edge services of a virtual private cloud (VPC) at host computers hosting machines of the VPC. The host computers in the novel network architecture are reachable from external networks through a gateway router of an availability zone (AZ). The gateway router receives a data message from the external network addressed to one or more data compute nodes (DCNs) in the VPC and forwards the data message to a particular host computer identified as providing a distributed edge service for the VPC. The particular host computer, upon receiving the forwarded data message, performs the distributed edge service and provides the serviced data message to a destination DCN.


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