ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,291, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Transactional distribution of modelled configuration from a centralized server to a plurality of subsidiary devices" was invented by Michael Gibbings Fink (San Francisco), Justin Costa-Roberts (San Francisco) and Avinash Siva Kumar (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for facilitating network devices to obtain configuration updates from a central configuration repository. Configuration update information is received regarding a configuration update in a configuration repository. A data tree is updated based on the con...