ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,305, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"BGP peering status-aware hitless reboot" was invented by Anand Narayanan (Austin, Texas), Akhil Shashidar (Austin, Texas), Pavan Narasimhaprasad (Cedar Park, Texas) and Thejesh Panchappa (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) peering status-aware hitless reboot on a network device are provided. In one set of embodiments, at the time of shutting down for a hitless reboot, the network device can collect status information regarding its BGP peerings and can write this information to a f...