ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,178, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Dynamic configuration of interfaces for VLAN information propagation" was invented by Justin James (Bengaluru, India), Siddarth Karki (Bengaluru, India) and Kaustav Majumdar (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may have an interface configured as a trunk interface. The network device may receive information indicative of the state of the interface for enabling or disabling VLAN information propagation using the interface. Based on the received information, the network device may appropriately configure the interface to part...