US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on April 15 for "Method and system for virtual machine aware policy management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,842, issued on April 15, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for virtual machine aware policy management" was invented by Douglas Alan Gourlay (San Francisco) and Kenneth James Duda (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for maintaining persistent network policies for a virtual machine (VM) that includes determining a name of the VM executing on a first host connected to a first network device; binding the name of the VM to a network policy for the VM on the first network device; acquiring from VM management software, using the name of the VM, a universally un...