US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Sept. 23 for "Input state synchronization for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) processes" (Greek, Canadian, Cypriot, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,496, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Input state synchronization for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) processes" was invented by Sharad Birmiwal (Burnaby, Canada), Joanne Mikkelson (Milpitas, Calif.), Isidoros Kouvelas (Athens, Greece), Jesper Skriver (Nicosia, Cyprus) and Asang Dani (Nagpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking system may facilitate Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) switchover between an active BGP process and a standby BGP process. A method is provided that includes using the active BGP process to establish a first communication session with a peer and a secon...