US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on April 29 for "Logical path down scope analysis" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,220, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Logical path down scope analysis" was invented by Amit Pillay (Milpitas, Calif.), Xiaoying Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Patrick Timmons (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management system (NMS) generates a hierarchical attribution graph representing different scopes at different hierarchical levels of a wide area network (WAN); obtains logical path down data indicative of operational behavior including failure events associated with logical paths of network devices over the WAN; obtains total path data indicative of a historical nu...