US Patent Issued to Ciena on March 4 for "Limiting the scope of a declarative configuration editing operation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,458, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Limiting the scope of a declarative configuration editing operation" was invented by David Miedema (Ottawa), David McDonald (Atlanta) and Rodd Lamarche (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for editing configuration data may include, according to one implementation, receiving a request to edit existing configuration data associated with a Network Element (NE) operating in a network. The existing configuration data includes a plurality of data access groups, each data access group including one or more attributes that characterize functional aspe...