Patents by Inventor Bhaskar Subramanyam Annadata

Bhaskar Subramanyam Annadata has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Network policy migration in a federated hybrid cloud
    Patent number: 11310277
    Abstract: One or more embodiments provide a firewall policy between a first virtual data center and a second virtual data center. A method includes: establishing a communication link between a first firewall server in the first virtual data center and a second firewall server in the second virtual data center over a network, the first firewall server having a first firewall defined by polices applied to groups of objects in the first virtual data center; obtaining, at the first firewall server, an inventory of objects in the second virtual data center from the second firewall server; determining firewall rule tuples by mapping the policies of the first firewall to groups of objects in the inventory of the second virtual data center; and sending the firewall rule tuples to enforcement points in the second virtual data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhaskar Subramanyam Annadata, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Sachin Thakkar, Debashis Basak
  • Network policy migration to a public cloud
    Patent number: 11184397
    Abstract: An example method of migrating a firewall policy between a first virtual data center and a second virtual data center includes: generating a static firewall from a firewall document at a first firewall server in the first virtual data center, the firewall document defining polices applied to groups of objects in the first virtual data center, the static firewall including firewall rule tuples; sending the static firewall from the first firewall server to a second firewall server in the second virtual data center; migrating a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) from the first virtual data center to the second virtual data center; and importing the firewall document from the first firewall server to the second firewall server by mapping the policies of the first firewall to groups of objects in an inventory of the second virtual data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Bhaskar Subramanyam Annadata, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Sachin Thakkar, Debashis Basak, Serge Maskalik
  • NETWORK POLICY MIGRATION TO A PUBLIC CLOUD
    Publication number: 20200059493
    Abstract: An example method of migrating a firewall policy between a first virtual data center and a second virtual data center includes: generating a static firewall from a firewall document at a first firewall server in the first virtual data center, the firewall document defining polices applied to groups of objects in the first virtual data center, the static firewall including firewall rule tuples; sending the static firewall from the first firewall server to a second firewall server in the second virtual data center; migrating a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) from the first virtual data center to the second virtual data center; and importing the firewall document from the first firewall server to the second firewall server by mapping the policies of the first firewall to groups of objects in an inventory of the second virtual data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Bhaskar Subramanyam Annadata, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Sachin Thakkar, Debashis Basak, Serge Maskalik
  • NETWORK POLICY MIGRATION IN A FEDERATED HYBRID CLOUD
    Publication number: 20200059494
    Abstract: One or more embodiments provide a firewall policy between a first virtual data center and a second virtual data center. A method includes: establishing a communication link between a first firewall server in the first virtual data center and a second firewall server in the second virtual data center over a network, the first firewall server having a first firewall defined by polices applied to groups of objects in the first virtual data center; obtaining, at the first firewall server, an inventory of objects in the second virtual data center from the second firewall server; determining firewall rule tuples by mapping the policies of the first firewall to groups of objects in the inventory of the second virtual data center; and sending the firewall rule tuples to enforcement points in the second virtual data center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Bhaskar Subramanyam Annadata, Abhinav Vijay Bhagwat, Sachin Thakkar, Debashis Basak