US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on April 21 for "Identification of network portion responsible for packet loss" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,879, issued on April 21, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Identification of network portion responsible for packet loss" was invented by Rikith Reddy Bachu (Gundlapochampally, India) and Karan Gupta (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device such as a wireless access point can store expected sequence number information associated with a network flow. The expected sequence number information may be updated as the network device receives data packets in the network flow. Based on comparisons of the maintained expected sequence number information with sequence numbers of the received data p...