ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,519, issued on July 21, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hash creation using arbitrary header field combinations" was invented by Adrian Donald Fettes (Vancouver, Canada) and Stefan Rizwan Kheraj (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments described herein provide for a system, an apparatus, and a method for hash creation using arbitrary header field combinations. One example implementation can include operations associated with generating a first hash key from user-defined fields for a first packet, generating a second hash key from user-defined fields for a second packet. The f...