US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on March 24 for "Event driven high speed interface counter polling" (American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,601, issued on March 24, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Event driven high speed interface counter polling" was invented by Jefferson Alberto Etaungo Esteves (Lisbon, Portugal), Dhruvalkumar Patel (Nashua, N.H.) and Scott Joseph Smith (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling precision monitoring of one or more data-throughput counters at one or more network interfaces are disclosed. A command-batch based polling technique enables a system to monitor with precision, e.g., at a high-speed, data-packet traffic through one or more data ports at a network interface. The command...