US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Aug. 11 for "Fragment modification of routing control functions" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,829, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fragment modification of routing control functions" was invented by Sharad Birmiwal (Burnaby, Canada), Matthieu Loriol (Vancouver, Canada) and Keon Vafai (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device that provides packet forwarding services includes: a command line interface and a route manager. The command line interface is programmed to: obtain a command, for updating a routing control function, that specifies positional information; identify a portion of the routing control function based on the positional information; identify...