US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on April 7 for "Routing policies with RCF expressions at the point of application" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,131, issued on April 7, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Routing policies with RCF expressions at the point of application" was invented by Sharad Birmiwal (Burnaby, Canada), Matthieu Loriol (Vancouver, Canada), Akshay Gattani (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Satish Mahadevan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network routes are assessed using a routing policy. The routing policy includes policy directives. A point of application in a policy directive specifies a program statement that can be immediately executed without having to make a function call. Stated differently, the program statement can be...