US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on May 26 for "Hitless network traffic policy upgrades" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,985, issued on May 26, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hitless network traffic policy upgrades" was invented by Nitin Karkhanis (Fremont, Calif.), Joseph Olakangil (San Jose, Calif.), Aman Aman-Ul-Haq (Surrey, Canada), Purushothaman Nandakumaran (Milpitas, Calif.) and Anuraag Mittal (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing hitless network traffic policy upgrades are provided. In one set of embodiments, these techniques allow a hitless upgrade of a network traffic policy to be performed in a manner that guarantees all network packets subject to the policy are evaluated a...