US 12,255,875 B2
Sidecar proxy as a service
David Robert Lenrow, Lexington, MA (US); Myron Eugene Bagwell, Southlake, TX (US); Vinod Kumar Choyi, Conshohocken, PA (US); and Michael A Gallagher, Dublin, OH (US)
Assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed by VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC., Basking Ridge, NJ (US)
Filed on Aug. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/400,173.
Prior Publication US 2023/0047880 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/0893 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 63/0281 (2013.01) [G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); H04L 41/0893 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45595 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a service mesh gateway (SMG), a request from a non-sidecar application to instantiate a proxy for the non-sidecar application, wherein the non-sidecar application is non-containerized and does not natively support sidecar proxy injection and the proxy provides administrative functionality to the non-sidecar application without using sidecar proxy injection;
instantiating, by the SMG, the proxy in response to the request, the proxy configured to monitor data communications to and from the non-sidecar application;
broadcasting, by the SMG, network information of the non-sidecar application to a mesh controller deployed in a containerized environment; and
transmitting, by the SMG, data over a control plane, the control plane communicatively coupled to the proxy and the mesh controller.