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

Claim 7:
8. A method, comprising:
detecting that a packet includes address information identifying a distributed resource and a node, wherein the distributed resource is distributed across a plurality of nodes that are uniquely addressable in a distributed resource service address space;
determining that the address information corresponds to a 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 virtual Internet (VIP) addresses;
translating the packet from the virtual network address space to the distributed resource service address space based on the resource map, thereby creating a translated packet including a public VIP address as a destination address and an endpoint identifier as a destination port, a combination of the public VIP address and the endpoint identifier being associated with the node within the distributed resource service address space; and
causing the translated packet to be sent to the node.