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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2021
Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Charles Ding, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ryan Sherali Madsen, San Francisco, CA (US);
ARISTA NETWORKS, INC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of managing a network includes: obtaining a search request for a device of a plurality of devices of the network where the device is specified by a piece of network information associated with the device; searching a searchable data structure using the piece of the network information to obtain a search result where the search result comprises a location list of potential locations within the network where the device may be located; obtaining likelihood rankings of the potential locations; and providing a response to the search request using the search result and the likelihood rankings.