ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,962, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Parallel execution of network services with overlapping device configuration" was invented by Viktoria Fordos (Bandhagen, Sweden) and Claes Daniel Nasten (Burea, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, methods, and systems for managing a set of data network nodes in a Network Management System (NMS). In some examples, a method may include receiving, at the network orchestrator, a service invocation for a service transaction associated with a transaction object; storing, by the network orchestrator, service metadata as part of the transaction ...