ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,673, issued on July 22, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Telemetry-based congestion source detection" was invented by Punit Kumar Jaiswal (Karnataka, India), Padmanabh Ratnakar (Karnataka, India) and Ashutosh Shukla (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying a source of congestion in a network using postcard-based telemetry. Sampled packets from a packet flow are received by a network management collector The packet flow emanates from a host into a network ingress point of an ingress networking device. The packet flow flows t...