US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on March 24 for "Autospan network traffic based on monitored applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,458, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Autospan network traffic based on monitored applications" was invented by Shashank Hegde (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sandip Shah (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to capturing network traffic for analysis. The present disclosure describes techniques to automate setting up a monitoring session for an application. The technique allows a user to set up a monitoring session by specifying the application to be monitored and one or more monitoring destinations (e.g., monitoring tools, monitoring fabric, etc.)....