US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Oct. 27 for "Metadata preservation for network traffic" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,977, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Metadata preservation for network traffic" was invented by James C Pang (Vancouver, Canada) and Vijay Rangarajan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a packet having a tunneling header. The tunneling header may include metadata. The network device may transcode the metadata for insertion into an Ethernet frame. The network device may output the Ethernet frame containing the transcoded metadata."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2024, under Application No. 18/590,157.

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