Patent ID: 9515931
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer system for controlling a flow of data packets in a virtual network, the system comprising: a source computer including a hypervisor for managing one or more virtual machines and including a network interface card (NIC), the system configured to perform a method comprising: receiving, by the NIC, flows of data packets from the one or more virtual machines managed by the hypervisor; and encapsulating the data packets, by the NIC, based on an overlay network protocol, and managing the flow of data packets through tunnels through an underlying physical network underlying the virtual network to a destination computer based on the overlay network protocol, wherein managing the flow of data packets through the tunnels comprises applying, by the NIC, a data flow strategy to the tunnels in the underlying physical network by assigning a higher priority to a first tunnel and a lower priority to a second tunnel, and reducing a transmission rate of the flow of data packets through the first tunnel less than through the second tunnel based on detecting congestion in the underlying physical network or between one of the tunnels and the destination computer.