ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,386, issued on June 3, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Generating XML configuration sub-streams based on an XML configuration stream and a metadata tree associated with the XML configuration stream" was invented by Fnu Nadeem (Fremont, Calif.), Pradeep H. Krishnamurthy (Bangalore, India) and Raviraj Satish Deshmukh (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a system may receive an extensible markup language (XML) configuration stream that indicates one or more resource configurations. The system may maintain a data model that includes metadata that describes the XML configuration s...