US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on July 21 for "Group-based network segmentation using dynamic groups" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,589, issued on July 21, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Group-based network segmentation using dynamic groups" was invented by Mateus Malvessi-Pereira (Vancouver, Canada), Zhongxiang Ye (Vancouver, Canada), Padmini Misra (Fremont, Calif.) and Justin Costa-Roberts (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network is partitioned into multiple domains and managed by a network controller. The network controller stores segmentation policies defined in terms of user groups, wherein members in a user group are identified by IP addresses or IP prefixes. An administrator controls which user groups communicat...