US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Oct. 20 for "Efficient flow state replication for distributed and highly available stateful network services" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,634, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient flow state replication for distributed and highly available stateful network services" was invented by Simon Capper (San Jose, Calif.) and Peter Lam (Anmore, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for replicating flow state information in a distributed and highly available stateful network service are provided. In some embodiments, these techniques enable each node of a cluster implementing the network service to replicate its flow state information for a network flow to only one other node (acting as a backup), rather than to all...