US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Nov. 4 for "Avoiding multicast traffic loss during maintenance mode transition" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,892, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Avoiding multicast traffic loss during maintenance mode transition" was invented by Sandeep Betha (Burnaby, Canada), Gokul Unnikrishnan (Toronto) and Santosh Kumar (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with the present disclosure, a switch under maintenance indicates to one or more of its neighbors that it will go into maintenance mode. The switch can add a maintenance indicator in a message to the neighbors. This "tagged" message informs the neighbor devices of the switch's intent to go into maintenance mode. After a time s...