US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 18 for "Deploying a change to a network service" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,775, issued on March 18, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deploying a change to a network service" was invented by Calum Sutherland Loudon (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Matthew Ian Ronald Williams (London), Peter Louis White (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Colin Michael Tregenza Dancer (Hampshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service orchestrator receives a definition of a change to a network service to be deployed over a plurality of sites of a communications network. The definition comprises a configuration schema with a plurality of fields, which are partitioned into a plurality...