US 12,425,314 B2
Packet flow monitoring with attribute-to-identifier mapping
Amol Manohar Vaikar, Maharashtra (IN); Vishal Ranjan, Maharashtra (IN); Avinash Nigam, Uttar Pradesh (IN); and Ravi Singhal, Maharashtra (IN)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on May 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/741,458.
Prior Publication US 2023/0370346 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 43/026 (2022.01); H04L 43/022 (2022.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01)
CPC H04L 43/026 (2013.01) [H04L 43/022 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for a first computer system to perform packet flow monitoring, wherein the method comprises:
detecting a flow of one or more packets along a datapath between a source and a destination, wherein the source or the destination is a virtualized computing instance supported by the first computer system;
determining, from the one or more packets, source attribute information associated with the source and destination attribute information associated with the destination;
performing attribute-to-identifier mapping by (a) mapping the source attribute information to a source identifier having a reduced size compared to the source attribute information, or (b) mapping the destination attribute information to a destination identifier having a reduced size compared to the destination attribute information, or both;
generating flow information that includes (a) the source identifier identifying the source, or (b) the destination identifier identifying the destination, or both; and
interacting with a second computer system, or storage accessible by the second computer system, to enable the second computer system to obtain the flow information.