Identifying hybrid connectivity for traffic flows in a multi-cloud environment
US11546292B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 11, 2022 |
| Grant date | Jan 3, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 11, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2101/668
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An example method of identifying a hybrid connection associated with a network flow in a multi-cloud computing system includes: obtaining, by a network analyzer, network information from a plurality of data centers in the multi-cloud computing system, the plurality of data centers corresponding to a respective plurality of namespaces; identifying Internet Protocol (IP) subnetworks associated with the hybrid connection from the network information; generating connection indexes for the namespaces relating source IP subnetworks of the IP subnetworks, destination IP subnetworks of the IP subnetworks, and an identifier for the hybrid connection; searching a source IP address and a destination IP address of a flow record for the network flow in the connection indexes to obtain the identifier for the hybrid connection; and tagging the flow record with the identifier for the hybrid connection.
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