US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 20 for "Configuration validation in a disaggregated network OS environment" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,562, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Configuration validation in a disaggregated network OS environment" was invented by Jaganbabu Rajamanickam (Kanata, Canada), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.), Madhan Sankaranarayanan (Chinnamanur, India) and David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network controller deploys a first component and a second component to run concurrently on a network device. The second component is an upgraded version of the first component. The first component receives a first instance of a packet routed to the network device and has ...