Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for performing a service discovery for virtual networks
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Application No.: US15043958Application Date: 2016-02-15
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Publication No.: US09923786B2Publication Date: 2018-03-20
- Inventor: Subrahmanyam Manuguri , Anirban Sengupta , Andre Khan
- Applicant: VMware, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee: VMware, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Palo Alto
- Agency: Clayton, McKay & Bailey PC
- Main IPC: H04J3/16
- IPC: H04J3/16 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
A system and method for performing a service discovery on a distributed computer system includes obtaining information of a service that is provided by a host computer in the distributed computer system and embedding the information into a Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) data frame to be transmitted from the host computer to another component of the distributed computer system.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160269252A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING A SERVICE DISCOVERY FOR VIRTUAL NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2016-09-15
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