ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,879, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Tag-based packet capture and query" was invented by Kanzhe Jiang (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Zhao Dong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sandip Shah (Fremont, Calif.) and Shunjia Yu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for facilitating the capturing and querying of network traffic (packets) is provided. In one set of embodiments, the framework enables the assignment of tags to sets of related network device interfaces. For example, a tag T1 may be assigned to a set of network device interfaces that carry traffic for an application or service ...