Mapping a service into a virtual network using source network address translation

US10999244B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Sumeet Mittal · Santa Clara, US
• Abhishek Shukla · Redmond, US
• Rishabh Tewari · Sammamish, US
• Qiming Chen · Sunnyvale, US
• Harish Kumar Chandrappa · Bothell, US
• Pranjal Shrivastava · Bellevue, US
• Anitha Adusumilli · Sammamish, US
• Parag Sharma · Issaquah, US
• Abhishek Ellore SREENATH · Kanchinakote, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 30, 2019
• Grant date: May 4, 2021
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L2212/00
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The techniques described herein enable a private connectivity solution between a virtual network of a service consumer and a virtual network of a service provider in a cloud-based platform. The techniques map a service (e.g., one or more workloads or containers) executing in the virtual network of the service provider into the virtual network of the service consumer. The mapping uses network address translation (NAT) that is performed by the cloud-based infrastructure. As a result of the techniques described herein, a public Internet Protocol (IP) address does not need to be used to establish a connection thereby alleviating privacy and/or security concerns for the virtual networks of the service provider and/or the service consumer that are hosted by the cloud-based platform.