US Patent Issued to Ciena on July 21 for "Predicting the intent of a network operator for making config changes" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,459, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Predicting the intent of a network operator for making config changes" was invented by Thomas Triplet (Manotick, Canada), Sudhan Puranik (Pune, India) and David Cote (Gatineau, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein are adapted to predict the intent of a network operator when it is determined that configuration changes (or config changes) are made to a network device. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of collecting raw data related to a Network Element (NE). The method also includes the step of pre-proce...