US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 16 for "Policing network element configuration injection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,232, issued on June 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Policing network element configuration injection" was invented by James Duncan Parsons (Hatfield, Great Britain), Dhaval Kiran Soneji (London) and George Arthur Blackburn (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed comprising receiving a desired configuration for a network element, the network element comprising a current configuration and being in operation in a live communications network. Prior to injecting the desired configuration in the network element, the method comprises initiating creating a test instance of the ne...