US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on May 12 for "Providing arbitrarily long timer from shorter underlying hardware counter" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,390, issued on May 12, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing arbitrarily long timer from shorter underlying hardware counter" was invented by Yin Chen (Burnaby, Canada), Andrew Peter Maxwell (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Avininderpal Singh Grewal (Langley, Canada) and Jeff Chan (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for extending an original bit length counter maintained by hardware of a network device to generate an extended length timestamp of a longer bit length are disclosed. The extension of the original bit length counter is based on a rollover counter, where the rollover coun...