US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Jan. 13 for "Network devices with hardware accelerated table updates" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,222, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Network devices with hardware accelerated table updates" was invented by Thomas Dejanovic (Sydney) and Roman Onosovski (Belleair, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device can include a main processor and a packet processor. A method is provided that includes storing a table of values in the packet processor, using the packet processor to receive from the main processor a value that can be used to update the table of values, and using acceleration hardware in the packet processor to update the table of values based on the value received fr...