ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,689, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storing and selection of entries in routing tables based on prefix length" was invented by Ramakrishnan Ganapathy Iyer (Trivandrum, India) and Vishal Bandekar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the storing and distribution of routes with different length prefixes between different tables in network devices utilizing lookup strengths associated with prefix lengths are disclosed. The results from performing lookups in these tables may have associated lookup strengths based on the prefix length of the associated rou...