Douglas Gourlay

Person

Menlo Park, CA, US

People

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Method and system for virtual machine aware policy management
- Patent number 12,278,842
- Issue date Apr 15, 2025
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
High frequency rotation of cryptographic data
- Patent number 12,267,217
- Issue date Apr 1, 2025
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Ethan Rahn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Using synthetic packets to validate forwarding and control implemen...
- Patent number 12,166,763
- Issue date Dec 10, 2024
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Cryptographically signed network configurations
- Patent number 12,132,710
- Issue date Oct 29, 2024
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for virtual machine aware policy management
- Patent number 11,895,154
- Issue date Feb 6, 2024
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for network topology enforcement
- Patent number 11,329,881
- Issue date May 10, 2022
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
System and method of updating a network element
- Patent number 11,249,747
- Issue date Feb 15, 2022
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Peter Raymond Sprygada
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for virtual machine aware policy management
- Patent number 11,075,948
- Issue date Jul 27, 2021
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
System and method of updating a network element
- Patent number 10,545,753
- Issue date Jan 28, 2020
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Peter Raymond Sprygada
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for monitoring and correcting defects of a networ...
- Patent number 10,484,256
- Issue date Nov 19, 2019
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
System and method for determining a cause of network congestion
- Patent number 10,262,700
- Issue date Apr 16, 2019
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Hugh W. Holbrook
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for network topology enforcement
- Patent number 9,900,217
- Issue date Feb 20, 2018
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
System and method for determining an effect of network congestion
- Patent number 9,800,485
- Issue date Oct 24, 2017
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Hugh W. Holbrook
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
System and method for determining a cause of network congestion
- Patent number 9,794,141
- Issue date Oct 17, 2017
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Hugh W. Holbrook
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for implementing a network policy using a VXLAN n...
- Patent number 9,729,578
- Issue date Aug 8, 2017
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for using virtual tunnel end-point registration a...
- Patent number 9,705,930
- Issue date Jul 11, 2017
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
System and method for device failure notification
- Patent number 9,680,948
- Issue date Jun 13, 2017
- Benoit Sigoure
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for auto-provisioning network devices in a data c...
- Patent number 9,621,511
- Issue date Apr 11, 2017
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Ariff Premji
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Determining when to switch to a standby intelligent adjunct network...
- Patent number 9,621,419
- Issue date Apr 11, 2017
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Michael R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
System and method for route health injection using virtual tunnel e...
- Patent number 9,509,603
- Issue date Nov 29, 2016
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Kenneth James Duda
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for network device maintenance
- Patent number 9,442,742
- Issue date Sep 13, 2016
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for using virtual tunnel end-point registration a...
- Patent number 9,350,608
- Issue date May 24, 2016
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for zero touch replacement of network infrastructure
- Patent number 9,225,595
- Issue date Dec 29, 2015
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Network accessibility to any network attached device during reboot...
- Patent number 8,964,574
- Issue date Feb 24, 2015
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Douglas A. Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Intelligent adjunct network device
- Patent number 8,755,382
- Issue date Jun 17, 2014
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Michael R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Communication embodiments and low latency path selection in a multi...
- Patent number 8,705,381
- Issue date Apr 22, 2014
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Douglas A. Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system of using counters to monitor a system port buffer
- Patent number 8,531,960
- Issue date Sep 10, 2013
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Mark Berly
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Network accessibility to any network attached device during reboot...
- Patent number 8,509,097
- Issue date Aug 13, 2013
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Douglas A. Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Energy efficient scaling of network appliance service performance
- Patent number 8,422,365
- Issue date Apr 16, 2013
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Steven B. Phillips
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Graceful removal and/or insertion of a network element
- Patent number 8,315,157
- Issue date Nov 20, 2012
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Victor M. Moreno
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE AWARE POLICY MANAGEMENT
- Publication number 20240223612
- Publication date Jul 4, 2024
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
USING SYNTHETIC PACKETS TO VALIDATE FORWARDING AND CONTROL IMPLEMEN...
- Publication number 20230412601
- Publication date Dec 21, 2023
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS
- Publication number 20230319018
- Publication date Oct 5, 2023
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
HIGH FREQUENCY ROTATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC DATA
- Publication number 20230078179
- Publication date Mar 16, 2023
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Ethan RAHN
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
BOOTSTRAPPING AND TROUBLESHOOTING OF REMOTE DEVICES
- Publication number 20230063515
- Publication date Mar 2, 2023
- Ethan Barnett Rahn
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
RECORDING PACKET LOSS IN A NETWORK
- Publication number 20230063253
- Publication date Mar 2, 2023
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENT
- Publication number 20220231918
- Publication date Jul 21, 2022
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING A NETWORK ELEMENT
- Publication number 20220121439
- Publication date Apr 21, 2022
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Peter Raymond Sprygada
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE AWARE POLICY MANAGEMENT
- Publication number 20210336997
- Publication date Oct 28, 2021
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING A NETWORK ELEMENT
- Publication number 20200117441
- Publication date Apr 16, 2020
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Peter Raymond Sprygada
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENT
- Publication number 20180131569
- Publication date May 10, 2018
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CAUSE OF NETWORK CONGESTION
- Publication number 20180012633
- Publication date Jan 11, 2018
- Hugh W. Holbrook
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING VIRTUAL TUNNEL END-POINT REGISTRATION A...
- Publication number 20160323319
- Publication date Nov 3, 2016
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING A NETWORK ELEMENT
- Publication number 20160313985
- Publication date Oct 27, 2016
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Peter Raymond Sprygada
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK DEVICE MAINTENANCE
- Publication number 20160085560
- Publication date Mar 24, 2016
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND CORRECTING DEFECTS OF A NETWOR...
- Publication number 20160048420
- Publication date Feb 18, 2016
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENT
- Publication number 20150280993
- Publication date Oct 1, 2015
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTE HEALTH INJECTION USING VIRTUAL TUNNEL E...
- Publication number 20150281062
- Publication date Oct 1, 2015
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Kenneth James Duda
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING VIRTUAL TUNNEL END-POINT REGISTRATION A...
- Publication number 20150200954
- Publication date Jul 16, 2015
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A NETWORK POLICY USING A VXLAN N...
- Publication number 20150200847
- Publication date Jul 16, 2015
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE AWARE POLICY MANAGEMENT
- Publication number 20150200808
- Publication date Jul 16, 2015
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTO-PROVISIONING NETWORK DEVICES IN A DATA C...
- Publication number 20150074246
- Publication date Mar 12, 2015
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Ariff Premji
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ZERO TOUCH REPLACEMENT OF NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
- Publication number 20150003282
- Publication date Jan 1, 2015
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Douglas Alan Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
System And Method For Determining A Cause Of Network Congestion
- Publication number 20140269378
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Hugh W. Holbrook
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
System And Method For Determining An Effect Of Network Congestion
- Publication number 20140269379
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Hugh W. Holbrook
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE FAILURE NOTIFICATION
- Publication number 20140280792
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Arista Networks, Inc.
- Benoit Sigoure
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABSTRACTING NETWORK POLICY FROM PHYSICAL INTE...
- Publication number 20140280846
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- Douglas Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Network Accessibility to any Network Attached Device During Reboot...
- Publication number 20130326059
- Publication date Dec 5, 2013
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Douglas A. Gourlay
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING COUNTERS TO MONITOR A SYSTEM PORT BUFFER
- Publication number 20110205893
- Publication date Aug 25, 2011
- Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Mark Berly
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Intelligent Adjunct Network Device
- Publication number 20110200041
- Publication date Aug 18, 2011
- Michael R. Smith
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Douglas Gourlay

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Method and system for virtual machine aware policy management

High frequency rotation of cryptographic data

Using synthetic packets to validate forwarding and control implemen...

Cryptographically signed network configurations

Method and system for virtual machine aware policy management

Method and system for network topology enforcement

System and method of updating a network element

Method and system for virtual machine aware policy management

System and method of updating a network element

Method and system for monitoring and correcting defects of a networ...

System and method for determining a cause of network congestion

Method and system for network topology enforcement

System and method for determining an effect of network congestion

System and method for determining a cause of network congestion

Method and system for implementing a network policy using a VXLAN n...

Method and system for using virtual tunnel end-point registration a...

System and method for device failure notification

Method and system for auto-provisioning network devices in a data c...

Determining when to switch to a standby intelligent adjunct network...

System and method for route health injection using virtual tunnel e...

Method and system for network device maintenance

Method and system for using virtual tunnel end-point registration a...

Method and system for zero touch replacement of network infrastructure

Network accessibility to any network attached device during reboot...

Intelligent adjunct network device

Communication embodiments and low latency path selection in a multi...

Method and system of using counters to monitor a system port buffer

Network accessibility to any network attached device during reboot...

Energy efficient scaling of network appliance service performance

Graceful removal and/or insertion of a network element

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE AWARE POLICY MANAGEMENT

USING SYNTHETIC PACKETS TO VALIDATE FORWARDING AND CONTROL IMPLEMEN...

CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY SIGNED NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS

HIGH FREQUENCY ROTATION OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC DATA

BOOTSTRAPPING AND TROUBLESHOOTING OF REMOTE DEVICES

RECORDING PACKET LOSS IN A NETWORK

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENT

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING A NETWORK ELEMENT

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE AWARE POLICY MANAGEMENT

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING A NETWORK ELEMENT

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENT

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A CAUSE OF NETWORK CONGESTION

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING VIRTUAL TUNNEL END-POINT REGISTRATION A...

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF UPDATING A NETWORK ELEMENT

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK DEVICE MAINTENANCE

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONITORING AND CORRECTING DEFECTS OF A NETWOR...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK TOPOLOGY ENFORCEMENT

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUTE HEALTH INJECTION USING VIRTUAL TUNNEL E...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING VIRTUAL TUNNEL END-POINT REGISTRATION A...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A NETWORK POLICY USING A VXLAN N...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE AWARE POLICY MANAGEMENT

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTO-PROVISIONING NETWORK DEVICES IN A DATA C...

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ZERO TOUCH REPLACEMENT OF NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

System And Method For Determining A Cause Of Network Congestion

System And Method For Determining An Effect Of Network Congestion

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICE FAILURE NOTIFICATION

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ABSTRACTING NETWORK POLICY FROM PHYSICAL INTE...

Network Accessibility to any Network Attached Device During Reboot...

METHOD AND SYSTEM OF USING COUNTERS TO MONITOR A SYSTEM PORT BUFFER

Intelligent Adjunct Network Device