US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on May 26 for "Systems and methods for network packet translation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,021, issued on May 26, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for network packet translation" was invented by Sebastiano Borgione (Bellevue, Wash.) and John S G Peach (Berkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modifying packet data of a packet in a network device, where the method includes receiving, at an ingress pipeline of the network device, the packet, performing a lookup, in a packet translation ruleset, to compare the packet data to rule criteria of a rule in the packet translation ruleset, making a first determination that at least a portion of the packet dat...