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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. 25, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 20, 2023
Applicant:

Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 43/0876 (2022.01); H04L 45/02 (2022.01); H04L 45/12 (2022.01); H04L 47/24 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/02 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04L 45/124 (2013.01); H04L 47/24 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some embodiments provide a method for dynamically deploying a managed forwarding element (MFE) in a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) for a particular geographic region across which multiple SaaS applications is distributed. The method determines, based on flow patterns for multiple flows destined for the multiple SaaS applications distributed across the particular geographic region, that an additional MFE is needed for the particular geographic region. The method configures the additional MFE to deploy at a particular location in the particular geographic region for forwarding the multiple flows to the multiple SaaS applications. The method provides, to a particular set of MFEs that connect a set of branch sites to the SD-WAN, a set of forwarding rules to direct the particular set of MFEs to use the additional MFE for forwarding subsequent data messages belonging to the multiple flows to the multiple SaaS applications.


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