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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.

Patent No.:

US 9825904 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2015

Address management in an overlay network environment

Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Stephan Benny, San Jose, CA (US);

Amitabha Biswas, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jayakrishna Kidambi, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:

Sherman IP LLP

Kenneth L. Sherman

Hemavathy Perumal

Primary Examiner:

Gerald Smarth

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04L 12/715 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/2046 (2013.01); H04L 41/0803 (2013.01); H04L 61/103 (2013.01); H04L 61/2535 (2013.01); H04W 8/26 (2013.01); H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 61/2007 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the invention relate to overlay network address management. One embodiment includes an overlay gateway including an overlay network manager associated with a physical network. The overlay network manager prevents duplicate address assignment for overlay domains having a first sharing status and performs address translation for overlay domains having a second sharing status. Address translation is avoided for overlay domains having the first sharing status.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Benny, Stephan. (2017). Address management in an overlay network environment (U.S. Patent No. 9825904). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9825904

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