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 …

Third-party service chaining using packet encapsulation in a flow-based forwarding element

S Sevinc, Y Song - US Patent 11,012,420, 2021 - Google Patents
A method of enforcing security rules for a packet on a host is provided. The method at a
security service dispatcher, determines a dispatching action on a packet for each of a group …

Redirection of data messages at logical network gateway

A Naveen, K Mundaragi, R Mishra, F Kavathia… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
7,649,890 B2 7,818,452 B2 7,898,959 B1 7,948,986 B1 8,078,903 B1 8,094,575 B1
8,175,863 B1 8,190,767 B1 8,201,219 B2 8,223,634 B2 8,230,493 B2 8,266,261 B2 …

Integrating physical and virtual network functions in a service-chained network environment

FP Sunavala, H Zhang, HL Fourie - US Patent 10,187,263, 2019 - Google Patents
Packets of data can be processed by a chain or sequence of service functions which include
both virtual and physical service functions. In one approach, the original header and/or …

Improving service function proxy performance in software defined networking networks

K Faseela, A Bisht - US Patent 10,382,325, 2019 - Google Patents
A method is implemented by a network device functioning as a controller in a Software
Defined Networking (SDN) network to configure a switch in the SDN network to process …

Tunnel-enabled elastic service model

J Jayant, A Sengupta, R Lund, R Koganty… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide novel inline switches that dis tribute data messages from
source compute nodes (SCNs) to different groups of destination service compute nodes …

Inline load balancing

J Jayant, A Sengupta, M Parthasarathy… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a novel method for load balancing data messages that are sent
by a source compute node (SCN) to one or more different groups of destination compute …

Method, apparatus, and system for implementing a content switch

X Hong, J Jayant, A Sengupta - US Patent 11,405,431, 2022 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a novel content switching method that distributes requests for
different types of content to different sets of content servers. In some embodiments, the …

Service control plane messaging in service data plane

P Rolando, K Mundaragi, R Mishra, J Jayant… - US Patent …, 2022 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide novel methods for performing services for machines operating
in one or more datacenters. For instance, for a group of related guest machines (eg, a group …

Specifying and distributing service chains

A Naveen, A Chalvadi, Y Ping, Y Lin, L Sun… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide novel methods for performing services for machines operating
in one or more datacenters. For instance, for a group of related guest machines (eg, a group …