Providing a virtual security appliance architecture to a virtual cloud infrastructure

GH Cooper, M Nedbal, HS Nadkarni - US Patent 9,571,507, 2017 - Google Patents
A method in an embodiment includes detecting a change for a virtual machine in a virtual
server of a virtual network infrastructure, determining whether a virtual security appliance is …

Specifying and utilizing paths through a network

S Boutros, A Dubey, M Parsa, I Cidon… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method
for (1) embedding a specific path for a tenant's data message flow through a network in …

Service operation chaining

S Boutros, P Monclus, P Kippen, D Rajan… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method
for forwarding tenant traffic through a set of service machines to perform a set of service …

Service operation chaining

S Boutros, P Monclus, P Kippen, D Rajan… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method
for forwarding tenant traffic through a set of service machines to perform a set of service …

Cloud-based middlebox management system

AR Gember, RD Grandl, TA Benson, A Anand… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
A virtual network virtual machine may be implemented on a cloud computing facility to
control communication among virtual machines executing applications and virtual machines …

Proxy methods for suppressing broadcast traffic in a network

H Wang, S Jianjun, HAN Donghai, C Jiang… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND Some protocols utilize broadcast to perform their func tionalities. Examples
of Such protocols include the address resolution protocol (ARP) and dynamic host …

Service insertion at logical network gateway

A Naveen, K Mundaragi, R Mishra, F Kavathia… - US Patent …, 2023 - Google Patents
2018-09-02 Assigned to VMWARE, INC. reassignment VMWARE, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: FENG, YONG, JAIN …

Implementing logical metadata proxy servers in logical networks

U Masurekar, J Jayant, R Zhang, M Kancherla… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for providing metadata proxy services to different data
compute nodes that are associated with different logical networks (eg, for different tenants of …

Maintaining data stored with a packet

I Ganichev, HVC Lim, JE Gross IV, J Pettit - US Patent 9,407,580, 2016 - Google Patents
US9407580B2 - Maintaining data stored with a packet - Google Patents US9407580B2 -
Maintaining data stored with a packet - Google Patents Maintaining data stored with a packet …

Dynamic generation of flow entries for last-hop processing

T Koponen, R Zhang - US Patent 9,124,538, 2015 - Google Patents
Related US Application Data forwarding element that implements logical forwarding ele (63)
Continuation-in-part of application No. 13/589,074, ments of a logical network. The method …