ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,261, issued on April 8, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Handling of link-state information" was invented by Arpit Bansal (Bangalore, India), Manoj Agiwal (Bangalore, India) and Vivek Ilangovan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive updated link-state information from a neighboring network device. The network device may omit processing of the received link-state information by ignoring the updates or differences if they are in portions of the link-state information that do not affect the processing or change output(s) of the processing."
The patent was filed on March...