ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,116, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"GOTO action in network traffic policies" was invented by Denny Hung (Cupertino, Calif.), Peter Delevoryas (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ramakrishna Paduvalli (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic policy includes policy rules that specify branch actions in their action fields. A branch action specifies another policy rule in the traffic policy. Packet filters generated from the traffic policy represent the traffic policy rules and execution order semantics of the branch rules."
The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2021, under Applicatio...