US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on Sept. 8 for "Tracking switchover history of supervisors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,420, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tracking switchover history of supervisors" was invented by Chetandeep Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Itthichok Jangjaimon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a switchover between an active supervisor and a standby supervisor executing on a network device includes initializing a switchover logger agent executing on the supervisor responsive to the switchover, wherein after the switchover, the supervisor is in an active state, wherein prior to the switchover, the supervisor is in a standby state and the second superv...