US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 29 for "Supporting out-of-band configuration changes in security policy management" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,354, issued on July 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Supporting out-of-band configuration changes in security policy management" was invented by Chandrasekhar A (Bengaluru, India) and Jayanthi R (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive a configuration of a network device, where the configuration includes configuration blocks with references to high level objects. The device may receive an out-of-band configuration change from the network device, and may compare the out-of-band configuration change and the configuration to identify an impacted high level object. The device ma...