ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,215, issued on May 5, was assigned to Calix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Optical module driver containerization" was invented by Jason W. Dove (Novato, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more memories and processing circuitry coupled to the one or more memories, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to: execute operating system (OS) software configured to control operation of a plurality of hardware optical modules of a network element, and execute a first containerized driver software for a first set of one or more hardware optical modules of the plurality of hardware optical modules to enable the OS ...