US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on June 16 for "Forward or drop packets in case of uRPF violation and notify controller via GRPC/SFLOW/IPFIX" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,315, issued on June 16, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Forward or drop packets in case of uRPF violation and notify controller via GRPC/SFLOW/IPFIX" was invented by Vishal Bandekar (Bangalore, India) and Rashid Akhtar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling a unicast reverse-path forwarding (uRPF) violation can include, at a network device residing on a network: receiving an incoming packet from a source Internet Protocol (IP) address, the incoming packet having a destination IP address, the network device comprising an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chip; p...