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Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2011
Applicants:

Marco Di Benedetto, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Dante Malagrino, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Alessandro Salvatori, San Jose, CA (US);

Arthur Lihder Chang, Fremont, CA (US);

Vijay Chander, San Ramon, CA (US);

Thomas Vincent Flynn, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Marco Di Benedetto, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Dante Malagrino, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Alessandro Salvatori, San Jose, CA (US);

Arthur Lihder Chang, Fremont, CA (US);

Vijay Chander, San Ramon, CA (US);

Thomas Vincent Flynn, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Embrane, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04L 12/911 (2013.01); H04L 12/64 (2006.01); H04L 12/713 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/70 (2013.01); H04L 12/6418 (2013.01); H04L 45/586 (2013.01);
Abstract

A distributed virtual appliance is disclosed, including: allocating network traffic to a plurality of compute units implementing a network service associated with the distributed virtual appliance; and dynamically adding or removing one or more compute units implementing the network service without disruption to the network traffic.


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