US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Sept. 8 for "Observing network behavior using characteristics of network protocols" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,440, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Observing network behavior using characteristics of network protocols" was invented by Thomas Benjamin Emmons (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hugh Weber Holbrook (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network monitoring systems and methods that utilize packet characteristics to perform network monitoring by capturing a limited subset of packets are disclosed. These captured packets can be correlated to monitor flows within the network and determine performance characteristics of the applications or the network with respect to those flows using the...