ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,455, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Merging configurations of network devices" was invented by Hua Zhong (San Jose, Calif.) and Diego Alfredo Asturias (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for merging configurations on network devices based on structured models representing features to be configured are disclosed. By utilizing these structured models embodiments may generally allow configuration merges to be performed substantially on a per feature basis and also allow the merging to be performed in a manner that minimizes conflicts and implementat...