US Patent 7643482 System and method for virtual switching in a host

Patent 7643482 was granted and assigned to Sun Microsystems on January, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent

Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Sun Microsystems

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7643482

Date of Patent

January 5, 2010

Patent Application Number

11480261

Date Filed

June 30, 2006

Patent Citations Received

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US Patent 11838395 Private ethernet overlay networks over a shared ethernet in a virtual environment

Patent Primary Examiner

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Hong Cho

Patent abstract

A system including a plurality of virtual network interface cards (VNICs); and a Vswitch table associated with a virtual switch, wherein each entry in the Vswitch table is associated with one of the plurality of VNICs, wherein each of the plurality of VNICs is located on the host, and wherein each of the plurality of VNICs is associated with the virtual switch. The first VNIC in the plurality of VNICs is configured to receive a packet associated with a hardware address (HA), determine, using the HA, whether one of the plurality of entries in the Vswitch table is associated with the HA, send the packet to a VNIC associated with HA if one of the plurality of entries in the Vswitch table is associated with the HA, wherein the VNIC is one of the plurality of VNICs.