US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Oct. 21 for "Reduced outage time with improved download to hardware tables based on valid entries" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,130, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reduced outage time with improved download to hardware tables based on valid entries" was invented by Lakshmikantha Chowdary Pothula (Santa Clara, Calif.), Swaroop George (Bangalore, India), Purushothaman Nandakumaran (Milpitas, Calif.), Joseph Olakangil (San Jose, Calif.) and Sandeep Gawai (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software tables in the control plane of a network device are downloaded into the data plane hardware after a reboot of the control plane. Valid entries are identified and downloaded while reducing the downloading inval...