ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,741, issued on March 25, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Server to support client data models from heterogeneous data sources" was invented by Chandrasekhar A (Bangalore, India), Jayanthi R (Bangalore, India) and Cyril Margaria (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network elements are managed with a server to support client data models from heterogeneous data sources. A server receives a first query for configuration data of a network element to be returned in a first model. The server determines a model type for the configuration data of the network element. When the model type is a second model that i...