US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Oct. 21 for "Signed SWI containing signed extensions for dynamic installation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,046, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Signed SWI containing signed extensions for dynamic installation" was invented by James Samuel Brinkley (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eudean Michael Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Baptiste Elie Franck Covolato (Vancouver, Canada), Ethan Barnett Rahn (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Julien Andre Alexis Gomes (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For dynamic installation of extensible network operating system (ENOS) extensions, a network device downloads a full software image (SWI) having a signature and a directory containing software packages from an insta...