US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on May 13 for "Efficient algorithm to eliminate redundant specific prefixes in forwarding information base using trie" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,452, issued on May 13, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient algorithm to eliminate redundant specific prefixes in forwarding information base using trie" was invented by Kumaran Narayanan (San Ramon, Calif.), Sudip Regmi (Fremont, Calif.), Prashant Srinivas (San Jose, Calif.) and Venkitraman Kasiviswanathan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network element and method for programming a network element that includes detecting an update to a first route in a routing information base (RIB) is disclosed. The method includes locating a first route network prefix associated with the first ...