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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10831469 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 16, 2017

Dynamically installing a device driver by a network element

Applicant:

Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sudip Regmi, Fremont, CA (US);

Udayakumar Srinivasan, Fremont, CA (US);

Kenneth James Duda, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Anirban Sinha, Vancouver, CA;

Assignee:

ARISTA NETWORKS, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:

Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Chat C Do

Assistant Examiner:

William C Wood

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 30/18 (2020.01); G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 8/65 (2018.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 111/02 (2020.01); G06F 8/60 (2018.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/656 (2018.02); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 8/65 (2013.01); G06F 9/4411 (2013.01); G06F 9/45533 (2013.01); G06F 30/18 (2020.01); H04L 41/082 (2013.01); H04L 41/145 (2013.01); H04L 41/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/34 (2013.01); G06F 8/60 (2013.01); G06F 9/455 (2013.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 2111/02 (2020.01); H04L 43/50 (2013.01); H04L 67/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus of a network element that installs a device driver used to manage hardware of the network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element detects, with a functionality of a network element operating system, the hardware of a data plane of the network element, where at least one component of the network element operating system is executing in a first container as a first set of processes. The network element further determines a device driver for the hardware and installs the device driver in a kernel of the host operating system. The network element additionally manages the data, with the network element operating system, using the device driver.

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