ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,605, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Sharing state information using shared memory" was invented by Vijay Varma Galbaransingh (Vancouver, Canada), Christopher Elisha Neilson (Coquitlam, Canada), Sebastian Sapa (Vancouver, Canada) and Duncan Stuart Ritchie (Bowen Island, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a shared first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue architecture in a computing device, such as a network device, that allows lock-free, concurrent access to a writer process (writer) and one or more reader processes (readers). The writer enqueues informati...