US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on July 1 for "Device network address and network prefix correlation" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,480, issued on July 1, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device network address and network prefix correlation" was invented by William Fenner (Chester Springs, Pa.) and Eamon Doyle (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may obtain its Internet Protocol (IP) address information. The network device may receive a device network address assignment message that indicates an IP address of the network device. The network device may receive a router advertisement message that indicates an IP address prefix that includes the IP address and that indicates a prefix length of the IP address prefix. The...