ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,862, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Unified network management for heterogeneous edge enterprise network" was invented by Uyen T. Chau (Roseville, Calif.) and Chinlin Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided which facilitate a unified network management for a heterogeneous edge enterprise network. In one aspect, the system establishes, by a cloud controller, a secure connection to an edge device in an edge network. The cloud controller deploys to the edge device a module which includes a proxy agent, thereby allowing the mod...