US Patent Issued to Ciena on Oct. 20 for "Automated discovery of network inventory from raw configuration files using machine learning" (Canadian, British, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,611, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Automated discovery of network inventory from raw configuration files using machine learning" was invented by Christopher Barber (Ottawa), Ashley Woods (Swindon, Great Britain), Balaji Subramaniam (San Jose, Calif.), Sudhan Puranik (Pune, India), Marc-Antoine Boutin (Ottawa) and David Cote (Gatineau, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated network inventory discovery method, including: at a network inventory discovery engine coupled to a network data source, receiving unstructured network configuration data associated with a network element (NE); and, usi...