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
(57) ABSTRACT 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 **, 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 …

Providing services with service VM mobility

C Lecuyer, S Gokhale, R Nair, A Chalvadi… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
Some embodiments provide a method for migrating a ser vice machine between two hosts.
The method configures a first host (1) to gather service machine data associated with the …

Creating and distributing service chain descriptions

Y Feng, A Chalvadi, Y **, Y Lin, L Sun… - 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 …

Distributed forwarding for performing service chain operations

S Gokhale, C Lecuyer, R Nair, K Mundaragi… - 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 …

Detecting failure of layer 2 service using broadcast messages

S Boutros, S Tan, R Mishra, K Mundaragi… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
6,154,448 A 6,772,211 B2 6,779,030 B1 6,826,694 B1 6,880,089 B1 6,985,956 B2
7,013,389 B1 7,209,977 B2 7,239,639 B2 7,379,465 B2 7,406,540 B2 7,447,775 B1 …