Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for the remote management of virtual network appliances
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Application No.: US14098003Application Date: 2013-12-05
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Publication No.: US09720718B2Publication Date: 2017-08-01
- Inventor: Farrel D. Johnson , Rick L. Ogg , Joseph E. Hirschinger , Joseph E. Sheets
- Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NJ Basking Ridge
- Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
- Current Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Basking Ridge
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; G06F9/455 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/24

Abstract:
An approach for remotely managing virtual network appliances (VNAs) includes establishing a management virtual circuit (VC) to a hypervisor running on a server at a customer premise, remotely deploying one or more VNAs to the hypervisor, and remotely managing the hypervisor and the one or more VNAs via the management VC.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150160961A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL NETWORK APPLIANCES Public/Granted day:2015-06-11
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