US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on July 1 for "Transport layer protocol state handling for border gateway protocol (BGP) processes" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,495, issued on July 1, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Transport layer protocol state handling for border gateway protocol (BGP) processes" was invented by Joanne Mikkelson (Milpitas, Calif.), Sharad Birmiwal (Burnaby, Canada) and Salam Noureddine (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking system may perform a border gateway protocol (BGP) switchover from an active BGP process to a standby BGP process. The standby BGP process may obtain transport layer protocol state information, for a given time, of a transport layer session for the active BGP process. The standby BGP process may update...