| Utility: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING SERVICES ON VIRTUAL MACHINES AND CONTAINERS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 31 Dec 2020 | 25 Jun 2019 | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: DETERMINATION OF A MINIMAL SET OF PRIVILEGES TO EXECUTE A WORKFLOW IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 31 Dec 2020 | 25 Jun 2019 | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: ALLOCATING COMPUTING RESOURCES BASED ON PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH LOCATION Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 31 Dec 2020 | 25 Jun 2019 | 31 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Zero-copy packet transmission between virtualized computing instances Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 3 Feb 2020 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: I/O destaging bandwidth control Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 26 Jun 2019 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Cuckoo caching Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 11 Apr 2019 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Load balancing stretched clusters in a distributed network Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 12 Mar 2019 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Managing client computing systems using distilled data streams Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 24 Jan 2019 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: In-place garbage collection of a sharded, replicated distributed state machine based on mergeable operations Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 11 Jan 2019 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Deploying updated information-technology blueprints Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 8 Jan 2019 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Data storage with a distributed virtual array Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 7 Jan 2019 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Protecting virtual machines against storage connectivity failures Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 19 Oct 2018 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: System and method for managing different types of snapshots of storage objects Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 25 Aug 2018 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Compilation-time checks to secure processes from speculative rogue cache loads Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 8 Jun 2018 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Remote operation authorization between pairs of sites with pre-established trust Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 22 Dec 2017 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Storage tiering based on virtual machine operations and virtual volume type Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 29 Dec 2020 | 25 Oct 2016 | 29 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: TRAFFIC REPLICATION IN OVERLAY NETWORKS SPANNING MULTIPLE SITES Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 3 Aug 2020 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE VIRTUAL MACHINES Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 29 Jun 2020 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: SELF-AWARE SERVICE ASSURANCE IN A 5G TELCO NETWORK Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 8 Aug 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: CONTAINER-LEVEL MONITORING Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 8 Aug 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: LOAD BALANCING OF L2VPN TRAFFIC OVER MULTIPLE IPSEC VPN TUNNELS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 24 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: HIGH PERFORMANCE APPLICATION DELIVERY TO VDI DESKTOPS USING ATTACHABLE APPLICATION CONTAINERS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 22 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: SYNCHRONIZED MULTIPLE POP-UP WINDOWS IN A VIRTUALIZED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 21 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: USING A ROUTE SERVER TO DISTRIBUTE GROUP ADDRESS ASSOCIATIONS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 19 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: INTERNET OF THINGS MANAGEMENT THROUGH SELF-DESCRIBING OBJECTS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 19 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Operation Predictor Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 19 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: PRECISION TIME PROTOCOL IN A VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 19 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: WORKLOAD TENURE PREDICTION FOR CAPACITY PLANNING Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 18 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: UNIFIED MANAGEMENT OF HETEROGENEOUS APPLICATIONS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 24 Dec 2020 | 18 Jun 2019 | 24 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Target injection safe method for inlining registration calls Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 17 Jan 2020 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: System and method for managing snapshots of storage objects for snapshot deletions Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 25 Aug 2018 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Visualizing data center inventory and entity relationships Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 31 May 2018 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Methods and systems to compound alerts in a distributed computing system Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 4 May 2018 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Capability discovery and enforcement to provide data in-flight (DIF) services along a communication path selected based on a DIF services policy associated with a virtual machine Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 20 Apr 2018 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Workload identification for network flows in hybrid environments with non-unique IP addresses Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 6 Apr 2018 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Reducing data amplification when replicating objects across different sites Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 26 Jul 2017 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Methods for managing self-healing cloud infrastructure and applications Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 7 Jul 2017 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Provisioning data volumes for containers running in virtual machines Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 30 May 2017 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Methods, systems and apparatus to propagate node configuration changes to services in a distributed environment Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 22 Dec 2020 | 9 Dec 2016 | 22 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: CROSS-CLUSTER HOST REASSIGNMENT Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Dec 2020 | 27 Aug 2020 | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MANAGE CLOUD PROVIDER SESSIONS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Dec 2020 | 17 Jun 2019 | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: RECONFIGURING DATA OBJECTS USING BATCH PROCESSING OF CONCATENATED COMPONENTS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Dec 2020 | 17 Jun 2019 | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: USING A CONTROL PLANE TO SET A PREFERRED EGRESS POINT IN MULTI-SITE LOGICAL ROUTERS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Dec 2020 | 14 Jun 2019 | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: CLUSTER-WISE LICENSE INFORMATION REPLICATION Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Dec 2020 | 13 Jun 2019 | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLUSTER RESOURCE BALANCING IN A HYPER-CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Dec 2020 | 13 Jun 2019 | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: ADAPTIVE POLLING IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN) ENVIRONMENTS Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 17 Dec 2020 | 12 Jun 2019 | 17 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Distributed deep packet inspection Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Dec 2020 | 28 Apr 2019 | 15 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Dependent system optimization for serverless frameworks Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Dec 2020 | 24 Apr 2019 | 15 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Provisioning/deprovisioning physical hosts based on a dynamically created manifest file for clusters in a hyperconverged infrastructure Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Dec 2020 | 2 Apr 2019 | 15 Dec 2020 |
| Utility: Method to perform crash and failure recovery for a virtualized checkpoint protected storage system Filling date: 8 Sep 2025 Issue date: 15 Dec 2020 | 16 Jan 2019 | 15 Dec 2020 |