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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
May. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Benoit Sigoure, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Fort, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0226 (2013.01); H04L 41/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/2823 (2013.01); H04L 41/0853 (2013.01);
Abstract
In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a method for managing network element state information (NESI). The method includes receiving, from a target entity, a state information request, storing a preferred transport protocol (PTP), obtaining a preferred serialization encoding (PSE), determining, in response to the state information request, that a program specific representation (PSR) on a network element is populated with the NESI, serializing the PSR using the PSE, and transmitting a serialized PSR, to the target entity, using the stored PTP.