US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on June 16 for "Recording packet loss in a network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,249, issued on June 16, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Recording packet loss in a network" was invented by Douglas Alan Gourlay (San Francisco), Udayakumar Srinivasan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Fred Hsu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packets in a network may be dropped from time to time. Although network devices are able to provide counters specifying the number of dropped packets, these network devices are unable to provide additional context about the dropped packets. However, users of a network wish to know more about dropped packets; such as why the packets were dropped. Therefore...