US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Nov. 18 for "Mechanism to manage bidirectional traffic for high availability network devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,911, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clata, Calif.).

"Mechanism to manage bidirectional traffic for high availability network devices" was invented by Tarun K. Soin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Venkitraman Kasiviswanathan (San Ramon, Calif.), Xiangyi Guo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Aparna Karanjkar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining, by a first network device of a pair of network devices, a packet, wherein the packet specifies a source address corresponding to a first client device and a destination address corresponding to a second client device, making a first determina...