Juniper Networks Assigned Patent

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, has been assigned a patent (8,954,976) developed by Gerovac, Branko J., and Carver, David C., Lexington, MA, for a “data storage in distributed resources of a network based on provisioning attributes.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products for receiving a content transfer request that includes a first set of provisioning attributes that characterizes one or more operational objectives of a first item of content, and processing the content transfer request to allocate resources of a storage environment to store the first item of content.“

The patent application was filed on July 10, 2008 (12/170,666).