ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,326, issued on May 5, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Optimized deep packet inspection (DPI) anywhere" was invented by Sandip Shah (Fremont, Calif.), Michael T. Stolarchuk (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Sean Dao (Gardena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring network traffic flowing in a production fabric, includes, in part, receiving a multitude of mirrored packets of the traffic flow at a service node disposed in a monitoring fabric that is distinct from the production fabric. From the received packets, the start of a communication session established between a first client and a second cli...