US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on April 14 for "Apparatus, system, and method for supplementing outdated versions of operating systems to facilitate upgrades" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,218, issued on April 14, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system, and method for supplementing outdated versions of operating systems to facilitate upgrades" was invented by Stephen J. Kiernan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Simon J. Gerraty (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed apparatus may include and/or represent (1) at least one storage device configured to store a version of an OS that supports a plurality of intrinsic system calls and (2) at least one processing device communicatively coupled to the storage device. In this example, the processing device may be configured t...