US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Nov. 4 for "Utilization of visibility feature to obtain and incorporate drop reasons into mirror on drop reports" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,058, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Utilization of visibility feature to obtain and incorporate drop reasons into mirror on drop reports" was invented by Padmanabh Ratnakar (Karnataka, India), Piyush Lodhi (Uttar Pradesh, India), Sahil Midha (Uttar Pradesh, India), Rohit Shukla (Uttar Pradesh, India), Petr Budnik (Burnaby, Canada) and Abdul Haseeb Jehangir (Surrey, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods in which a network switch detects a dropped packet and automatically generates a report with information on the dropped packet. Additionally, a visibility packet that i...