Patent ID: 11882090
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
detecting that a packet includes:
a private virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address as a destination address, the private VIP address identifying a distributed resource, wherein the distributed resource is distributed across a plurality of nodes within a virtual network space, the plurality of nodes uniquely addressable in a distributed resource service address space; and
a port number as a destination port, the port number identifying a node of the plurality of nodes;

determining that the private VIP address and the node correspond to a virtual network address space, wherein the node is within the virtual network address space;
accessing a resource map that relates the virtual network address space to the distributed resource service address space, the resource map including one or more private VIP addresses;
translating the packet from the virtual network address space to the distributed resource service address space on the distributed resource based on the resource map, thereby creating a translated packet; and
causing the translated packet to be sent to the node.