US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on March 18 for "Multi-tiered clos network fabric reverse path forwarding device selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,803, issued on March 18, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-tiered clos network fabric reverse path forwarding device selection" was invented by Bharathram Pattabhiraman (San Jose, Calif.) and Ryan Michael Halbrook (Salinas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reverse path forwarding (RPF) selection by a network device connected to a network includes receiving an advertisement message from each of a plurality of neighbor devices within the network, parsing the advertisement message to determine a color identification (ID) of each of the neighbor devices, and selecting, from among the ne...