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Last updated: April 19, 2026

VMware, Inc.

103 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

103
Total Pending OAs
26
Final Rejections
77
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18902276 CLUSTER ENCRYPTION DURING DEPLOYMENT TO, BAOTRAN N 2435 Non-Final OA Sep 30, 2024
18788018 SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR MEDIA PLAYBACK KIM, WILLIAM JW 2409 Final Rejection Jul 29, 2024
18780352 DISTRIBUTED NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION FOR EFFICIENT CLOUD SERVICE ACCESS ZONG, RUOLEI 2441 Non-Final OA Jul 22, 2024
18751765 PACKET PROCESSING WITH HARDWARE OFFLOAD UNITS PHUNG, LUAT 2468 Non-Final OA Jun 24, 2024
18651453 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ISOLATE STATE MANAGEMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE ENVIRONMENTS DADA, BEEMNET W 2435 Non-Final OA Apr 30, 2024
18651481 ASSOCIATION OF CLOUD ACCOUNTS BROWN, ANTHONY D 2408 Non-Final OA Apr 30, 2024
18649936 CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT AS-A-SERVICE FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATACENTERS GADALLA, HANY S 2493 Non-Final OA Apr 29, 2024
18607311 METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING, AUTHORIZING, AND AUDITING LONG-RUNNING AND SCHEDULED OPERATIONS LE, KHOI V 2436 Non-Final OA Mar 15, 2024
18607364 Process-Aware Identity Firewall LEE, MICHAEL M 2436 Non-Final OA Mar 15, 2024
18607315 System and Method for Autoscaling Flexible Cloud Namespace Instances in a Cloud Computing Environment ELFERVIG, TAYLOR A 2445 Final Rejection Mar 15, 2024
18405549 AUTOMATED CELL SITE PROVISIONING IN 5G RADIO-ACCESS NETWORKS MYERS, ERIC A 2474 Non-Final OA Jan 05, 2024
18510351 HYPERVISOR-HOSTING-BASED SERVICE MESH SOLUTION DU, ZONGHUA A 2444 Final Rejection Nov 15, 2023
18382063 METHODS AND SYSTEMS INCLUDING A GRAPH-BASED USER INTERFACE THAT DISPLAYS, AND THAT PROVIDES FOR GENERATING AND EDITING, CLOUD-INFRASTRUCTURE-SPECIFICATION-AND-CONFIGURATION FILES BADAWI, ANGIE M 2179 Non-Final OA Oct 20, 2023
18382190 PROVISIONING CLOUD-AGNOSTIC RESOURCE INSTANCES BY SHARING CLOUD RESOURCES LEE, ADAM 2198 Non-Final OA Oct 20, 2023
18382329 METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE BY IDEMPOTENT APPLICATION OF DATA SPECIFICATIONS LEE, ADAM 2198 Non-Final OA Oct 20, 2023
18381804 DISTRIBUTED BRIDGING BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND OVERLAY NETWORK SEGMENTS HACKENBERG, RACHEL J 2454 Non-Final OA Oct 19, 2023
18489656 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO ALLOCATE RESOURCES IN A CLOUD ENVIRONMENT AQUINO, WYNUEL S 2199 Non-Final OA Oct 18, 2023
18380662 METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT AUTOMATICALLY TRANSFER MANAGEMENT OF CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FROM A FIRST MANAGER TO A SECOND MANAGER LEE, ADAM 2198 Non-Final OA Oct 17, 2023
18380864 SECURE FRAME CAPTURE CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA 2444 Final Rejection Oct 17, 2023
18380658 CONTAINERIZED MICROSERVICE ARCHITECTURE FOR MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS DAO, TUAN C. 2198 Non-Final OA Oct 17, 2023
18487708 LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT OF AUTONOMOUS CLUSTERS IN A VIRTUAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT KABIR, MOHAMMAD H 2192 Non-Final OA Oct 16, 2023
18487907 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTION OF ALLOCATION TARGETS IN AN AUTOMATED ALLOCATION ENGINE CHU JOY, JORGE A 2195 Non-Final OA Oct 16, 2023
18380273 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE SINGLE-COMPLIANCE DESIGNS FOR CLOUD, ON-PREMISES AND DARK SITE DEPLOYMENTS NGUYEN, DUY KHUONG THANH 2199 Non-Final OA Oct 16, 2023
18380160 THREAD POOL MANAGEMENT FOR DATA TRANSFER BETWEEN INTEGRATED PRODUCTS MUDRICK, TIMOTHY A 2198 Non-Final OA Oct 14, 2023
18379821 METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE USING ARTIFICIAL-LIFE AGENTS CHEEMA, UMAR 2458 Non-Final OA Oct 13, 2023
18379690 MULTI-SOURCE DATA CENTER OBJECT MIRRORING IN A MULTI-CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT KENDALL, CHUCK O 2192 Non-Final OA Oct 13, 2023
18378476 GENERATING AND STORING AGGREGATED METRICS FOR DIFFERENT AGGREGATION GRANULARITIES FOR DIFFERENT PERIODS OF TIME FOR MONITORING OF NETWORK ELEMENTS OF A SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 3624 Non-Final OA Oct 10, 2023
18378163 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE CONFIGURATIONS OF CLOUD RESOURCES SIMPSON, DIONE N 3628 Non-Final OA Oct 10, 2023
18377829 NVME FABRICS TO VVOL BRIDGE FOR DPU STORAGE CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA 2409 Non-Final OA Oct 09, 2023
18377830 OPTIMIZING A NIC THAT EMULATES A LOCAL NVME STORAGE DEVICE FOR PROCESSES OF A HOST COMPUTER SWIFT, CHARLES M 2196 Non-Final OA Oct 09, 2023
18377836 CRYPTOGRAPHY AS A SERVICE SHEPPERD, ERIC W 2492 Non-Final OA Oct 09, 2023
18373580 SERVER AND APPLICATION AWARE NUMA-BASED LOAD-BALANCING SOLUTION LEE, ADAM 2198 Non-Final OA Sep 27, 2023
18473894 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AND MANAGE LOGICAL WORKLOAD DOMAIN CLUSTERS IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT REAGAN, JAMES A 3697 Non-Final OA Sep 25, 2023
18371856 ADVANCED STORAGE OPERATIONS FOR WAN OPTIMIZATION BALLOWE, CALEB JAMES 2419 Non-Final OA Sep 22, 2023
18371913 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OPTIMIZING AND PROVISIONING VIRTUAL DATA STORAGE KIM, DONG U 2197 Non-Final OA Sep 22, 2023
18371761 FUNCTIONS AS A SERVICE MOTTER, JORDAN SCOTT 2198 Non-Final OA Sep 22, 2023
18371762 FUNCTIONS AS A SERVICE LEE, ADAM 2198 Non-Final OA Sep 22, 2023
18244926 WORKLOAD PLACEMENT BASED ON DATASTORE CONNECTIVITY GROUP MILLER, DANIEL E 2194 Non-Final OA Sep 12, 2023
18244079 LOW-CODE DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM FOR EXTENDING WORKLOAD PROVISIONING SUN, CHARLIE 2198 Non-Final OA Sep 08, 2023
18243106 SINGLE ADAPTER INSTANCE CONFIGURATION FOR MONITORING MULTIPLE VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURES MHEIR, ZUHEIR 2198 Non-Final OA Sep 07, 2023
18461790 DECENTRALIZED RESOURCE SCHEDULING SUN, CHARLIE 2198 Non-Final OA Sep 06, 2023
18461752 LIMITING PEER CONNECTION ATTEMPTS BASED ON FAILURES IN PEER CONNECTION SALAD, ABDULLAHI ELMI 2466 Non-Final OA Sep 06, 2023
18208819 NETWORK CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND MODIFYING LOGICAL SWITCHING ELEMENTS ACOLATSE, KODZOVI 2478 Non-Final OA Sep 06, 2023
18461276 TRANSPORT LAYER FOR DISTRIBUTED AND FEDERATED LEARNING BLAIR, DOUGLAS B 2454 Final Rejection Sep 05, 2023
18237906 RECEIVE SIDE SCALING (RSS) USING PROGRAMMABLE PHYSICAL NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER (PNIC) KAMARA, MOHAMED A 2412 Final Rejection Aug 25, 2023
18456161 HYPERVISOR SCHEDULING OF WORKLOADS ON HETEROGENEOUS PROCESSING CORES BASED ON WORKLOAD HINTS SUN, ANDREW NMN 2195 Non-Final OA Aug 25, 2023
18236969 ADAPTIVE MIGRATION ESTIMATION FOR A GROUP OF VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCES ROTARU, OCTAVIAN 3624 Non-Final OA Aug 23, 2023
18227999 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE CODE UNDERSTANDABILITY FOR CLOUD RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ANYA, CHARLES E 2194 Non-Final OA Jul 31, 2023
18227334 ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC FORWARDING OVER MULTIPLE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES KIM, ANDREW CHANUL 2471 Final Rejection Jul 28, 2023
18227308 METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT EFFICIENTLY ALLOCATE AND PROVISION VIRTUAL-NETWORKS DURING CLOUD-TEMPLATE-DIRECTED CLOUD-INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT LEE, ADAM 2198 Non-Final OA Jul 28, 2023
18226771 PRESENTING DATA REGARDING GROUPED FLOWS CURRAN, J MITCHELL 2169 Non-Final OA Jul 27, 2023
18226947 ADJUSTED GROUP EXECUTION FRAMEWORK FOR MONOLITHIC APPLICATIONS WITH PREDICTIVE DIAGNOSTICS MUDRICK, TIMOTHY A 2198 Non-Final OA Jul 27, 2023
18226817 METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT MANAGE CLOUD-COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE BY IDEMPOTENT APPLICATION OF DATA SPECIFICATIONS VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL 2196 Non-Final OA Jul 27, 2023
18357837 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS BETWEEN MULTIPLE AUTOMATION SYSTEMS KIM, SISLEY NAHYUN 2196 Non-Final OA Jul 24, 2023
18224970 NETWORK SCHEDULER IN A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM TALIOUA, ABDELBASST 2445 Non-Final OA Jul 21, 2023
18355215 AUTOMATED SCHEDULING OF SOFTWARE DEFINED DATA CENTER (SDDC) UPGRADES AT SCALE THROUGH OPTIMIZED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE DIVECHA, KAMAL B 2453 Non-Final OA Jul 19, 2023
18217657 MANAGING VIRTUAL WORKLOAD PRIORITIES IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT AMIN, MUSTAFA A 2194 Non-Final OA Jul 03, 2023
18217173 CONFIGURING PLATFORM SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION SYSTEM NGUYEN, PHILLIP H 2191 Non-Final OA Jun 30, 2023
18217118 PLACEMENT IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON RESOURCE ALLOCATION LEE, ADAM 2198 Non-Final OA Jun 30, 2023
18214473 BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION-BASED CONGESTION CONTROL FAN, JOHN 2441 Final Rejection Jun 26, 2023
18336222 MANAGEMENT OF BINARY SOFTWARE PATCHES WANG, RONGFA PHILIP 2199 Final Rejection Jun 16, 2023
18325756 RIGHT-SIZING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT (GPU) PROFILES FOR VIRTUAL MACHINES AMIN, MUSTAFA A 2194 Final Rejection May 30, 2023
18324373 AUTONOMOUS CLUSTERS IN A VIRTUALIZATION COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT AMIN, MUSTAFA A 2194 Non-Final OA May 26, 2023
18319351 Meta-level management system that aggregates information and functionalities of computational-resource management systems and that provides new management functionalities RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 Non-Final OA May 17, 2023
18198237 STREAMING DATA TO CONSUMERS BASED ON CONSUMER IDENTITY SUN, ANDREW NMN 2195 Non-Final OA May 16, 2023
18198245 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREEMPTIVELY PROVIDING FORWARDING ELEMENT CONFIGURATION INFORMATION NEEDED FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION DURING CONTROLLER OUTAGES MOTTER, JORDAN SCOTT 2198 Non-Final OA May 16, 2023
18196450 CLOUD NATIVE NETWORK FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT ZHAO, BING 2151 Non-Final OA May 12, 2023
18315599 MANAGING MULTICAST STATISICAL INFORMATION FOR CONTAINERS IN A COMPUTING NETWORK ABU ROUMI, MAHRAN Y 2455 Non-Final OA May 11, 2023
18195841 MICRO-SEGMENTATION RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MULTI-DATACENTER NETWORK DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 Non-Final OA May 10, 2023
18195829 SERVER HANDLING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN CLOUD-BASED NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGED DATACENTERS MIAN, MOHAMMAD YOU A 2457 Final Rejection May 10, 2023
18195836 DEPLOYMENT OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVICES IN PUBLIC CLOUD DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 Final Rejection May 10, 2023
18195826 CONFIGURATION OF LOAD BALANCER FOR CONNECTION SERVERS BETWEEN NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGED DATACENTERS DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 Final Rejection May 10, 2023
18314881 ENHANCED DATASTORES FOR VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS HU, SELINA ELISA 2193 Final Rejection May 10, 2023
18195851 HEALTH MONITORING ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTI-TENANT SYSTEM NAHRA, SELENA SABAH 2192 Non-Final OA May 10, 2023
18195399 DYNAMIC BUFFER LIMIT CONFIGURATION OF MONITORING AGENTS MILLS, FRANK D 2194 Non-Final OA May 10, 2023
18195835 MULTI-TENANT NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVICE VINCENT, ROSS MICHAEL 2196 Non-Final OA May 10, 2023
18195825 GLOBAL POLICY CONFIGURATION FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT SERVICE OPERATING IN PUBLIC CLOUD DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 Non-Final OA May 10, 2023
18195850 USER INTERFACE FOR HEALTH MONITORING OF MULTI-SERVICE SYSTEM LI, HARRISON 2195 Non-Final OA May 10, 2023
18139987 AUTOMATE SUSPENSION AND REDEPLOYMENT OF CLOUD RESOURCES AYERS, MICHAEL W 2195 Final Rejection Apr 27, 2023
18137532 DYNAMIC SCALING OF CLOUD GATEWAYS CONNECTING CLOUD MACHINES TO ON-PREMISES MACHINES BASED ON STATISTICS OF THE CLOUD GATEWAYS DASCOMB, JACOB D 2198 Final Rejection Apr 21, 2023
18297113 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BLUEPRINT EXTENSIBILITY VIA PLUGINS NAHRA, SELENA SABAH 2192 Non-Final OA Apr 07, 2023
18128243 OBJECT INPUT/OUTPUT SAMPLING FOR PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSIS IN VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT LI, HARRISON 2195 Non-Final OA Mar 30, 2023
18181643 MANAGING ACTIVE AND STANDBY GATEWAYS USING DUPLICATE ADDRESS DETECTION PACKETS WIDHALM DE RODRIG, ANGELA MARIE 2443 Non-Final OA Mar 10, 2023
18176867 BI-DIRECTIONAL GRADIENT COMPRESSION FOR DISTRIBUTED AND FEDERATED LEARNING KIM, DAVID 2141 Non-Final OA Mar 01, 2023
18108683 MANAGING PROCESSING QUEUE ALLOCATION USING SEQUENCE NUMBER BITS OF AN IPSEC PACKET PHAN, MAN U 2477 Final Rejection Feb 13, 2023
18156588 UNIFIED DEPLOYMENT OF CONTAINER INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESOURCES TANG, KENNETH 2197 Final Rejection Jan 19, 2023
18059527 Virtualized Low-Level Compilation Format Runtimes ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2100 Final Rejection Nov 29, 2022
17990758 MANAGING THE ASSIGNMENT OF VIRTUAL MACHINES TO NON-UNIFORM MEMORY ACCESS NODES ANYA, CHARLES E 2194 Non-Final OA Nov 21, 2022
17984419 PERSISTENT DATA SECURITY FOR DATA PROCESSING UNITS VU, TAYLOR P 2437 Non-Final OA Nov 10, 2022
17976898 AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY OF APPLICATION RESOURCES FOR APPLICATION BACKUP IN A CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION PLATFORM TALUKDAR, ARVIND 2132 Final Rejection Oct 31, 2022
17976788 FORWARDING ELEMENT WITH PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL DATA PLANES RENNER, BRANDON M 2411 Final Rejection Oct 29, 2022
17970830 METHODS AND SYSTEMS THAT SAFELY IMPLEMENT CONTROL POLICIES WITHIN REINFORCEMENT-LEARNING-BASED MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM AGENTS ELCHANTI, TAREK 3621 Non-Final OA Oct 21, 2022
17968712 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONSTRUCTING AN ONTOLOGY OF LOG MESSAGES WITH NAVIGATION AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BULLOCK, JOSHUA 2153 Non-Final OA Oct 18, 2022
17964955 PREVENTING UNNECESSARY REGISTRATION OF VIRTUAL MACHINES NGUYEN, AN-AN NGOC 2195 Non-Final OA Oct 13, 2022
17960863 LOAD BALANCING WITH SERVICE-TIER AWARENESS KIM, DONG U 2197 Non-Final OA Oct 06, 2022
17876460 OFFLOADING STATEFUL SERVICES FROM GUEST MACHINES TO HOST RESOURCES TONG, JUSTIN CHE-CHUN 2196 Final Rejection Jul 28, 2022
17871991 LOAD BALANCING OVER TUNNEL ENDPOINT GROUPS AMIN, MUSTAFA A 2194 Non-Final OA Jul 25, 2022
17812277 PLACEMENT OF VIRTUAL COMPUTING INSTANCES (VCIs) BASED ON PHYSICAL NETWORK INTERFACE CONTROLLER (NIC) QUEUE INFORMATION TODD, GREGORY G 2443 Final Rejection Jul 13, 2022
17863178 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DEPLOYMENT OF A KUBERNETES VIRTUAL COMPUTING CLUSTER TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC 2196 Non-Final OA Jul 12, 2022
17731290 POWER OPTIMIZATION BASED ON WORKLOAD PLACEMENT IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT HOANG, PHUONG N 2194 Final Rejection Apr 28, 2022
17710752 SOFTWARE-BASED ENTROPY SOURCE BASED ON RACE CONDITIONS RIVERA, MARIA DE JESUS 2151 Non-Final OA Mar 31, 2022
17678551 COMMON VOLUME REPRESENTATION IN A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM CHU JOY, JORGE A 2195 Final Rejection Feb 23, 2022
17591625 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO GENERATE AND MANAGE LOGICAL WORKLOAD DOMAINS IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT LI, HARRISON 2195 Final Rejection Feb 03, 2022

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