ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,807, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Host routing with virtual machine mobility" was invented by Alton Lo (Freemont, Calif.), Ian McCloghrie (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Navdeep Bhatia (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for supporting virtual machine (VM) mobility between network devices connected to a network includes: selecting a first type of route for interconnecting VMs that are connected to the network devices; and adding a feature of a second type of route to the first type of route to enable the network devices to execute proxy address resolution protocol (A...