US Patent Issued to JUNIPER NETWORKS on March 18 for "Active assurance for virtualized services" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,802, issued on March 18, was assigned to JUNIPER NETWORKS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Active assurance for virtualized services" was invented by William Wennerstrom (Hagersten, Sweden) and Jorma Ikaheimo (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes receiving, by a computing system, a declarative testing descriptor for active testing of a virtualized service; obtaining, from an orchestration layer, metadata associated with the virtualized service, wherein the metadata specifies a unique name for a virtualized service within the namespace of a cluster managed by the orchestration layer; determining, by the c...