Arista Networks Assigned Patent

Arista Networks, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (12210493) developed by Sigoure; Benoit, Lyon, France, and Fink; Michael, San Francisco, CA, for “optimizing storage of data in row-oriented data storages.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for optimizing storage of data in row-oriented data storages. A block of data comprising a plurality of rows of data. Each row of data comprises a set of values for a set of attributes. A set of unique schemas is determined based on the plurality of rows of data. A set of groups of rows of data is determined based on the set of unique schemas. For each group of rows of data in the set of groups of rows of data, the group of rows of data is stored in a column-oriented format. For each group of rows of data in the set of groups of rows of data, a set of encoding techniques are applied to values in the group of rows of data based on the sets of attributes of the group of rows of data.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-11-17 (18/056643).