US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 25 for "Incremental network intent provisioning" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,743, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Incremental network intent provisioning" was invented by Ankur Bhargava (Pleasanton, Calif.), Anand Krishnamurthy (San Jose, Calif.), Kenneth William Chambers (Raleigh, N.C.) and Gavin Llewellyn Camp (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of provisioning a network may include, with a network controller, identifying a first network intent of a computing network based at least in part on an execution of a user interface (UI) or API layer at a client device, and identifying a modification of at least one object within the first ...