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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:
Mar. 21, 2017

Filed:

May. 11, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Jayakrishna Kidambi, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/723 (2013.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/465 (2013.01); H04L 12/4633 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 49/354 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide a method for packet distribution in a virtual networking system comprising multiple virtual networks interconnected over an underlying layer network, wherein each virtual network comprises one or more computing nodes. The method comprises, for each virtual network, sending at least one outgoing packet targeting a computing node at a different virtual network, and receiving at least one incoming packet targeting a computing node of the virtual network. Each packet has a corresponding virtual networking tag that includes routing information identifying a destination virtual network for the packet.


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