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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:
Aug. 26, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2021
Applicant:

Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sunil Mukundan, Chennai, IN;

Stephen Craig Connors, San Jose, CA (US);

Steven Michael Woo, Los Altos, CA (US);

Ajit Ramachandra Mayya, Saratoga, CA (US);

Thomas Harold Speeter, San Martin, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04L 1/18 (2023.01); H04L 43/028 (2022.01); H04L 43/0894 (2022.01); H04L 45/24 (2022.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04L 47/2408 (2022.01); H04L 47/41 (2022.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/66 (2013.01); H04L 1/00 (2013.01); H04L 1/004 (2013.01); H04L 1/18 (2013.01); H04L 43/028 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 47/2408 (2013.01); H04L 47/41 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 1/1671 (2013.01); H04L 43/0894 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one exemplary aspect, an edge-gateway multipath method includes the step of providing an edge device in a local network communicatively coupled with a cloud-computing service in a cloud-computing network. A set of wide area network (WAN) links connected to the edge device are automatically detected. The WAN links are automatically measured without the need for an external router. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a central configuration point in the cloud-computing network. The method further includes the step of downloading, from the central configuration point, an enterprise-specific configuration data into the edge device. The enterprise-specific configuration data includes the gateway information. The edge device is communicatively coupled with a gateway in the cloud-computing network. The communicatively coupling of the edge device with the gateway includes a multipath (MP) protocol.


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