ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,467, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"System and method for path computation service for a service aware virtual topology over a wide area network" was invented by Venkitraman Kasiviswanathan (San Ramon, Calif.) and Yunxia Chen (Rollingwood, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating routing tables and providing these tables to routers in a network for use in routing data to various destination routers. One embodiment comprises an apparatus that includes a centralized controller for a network. The centralized controller is adapted to receive link metrics fo...