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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2015
Coriant Oy, Espoo, FI;
Coriant Oy, Espoo, FI;
Abstract
Disclosed is a device for maintaining a configuration data structure expressing configuration of a device. The configuration is maintained by an operative process making desired changes to the configuration and adding, to the configuration data structure, change descriptors indicative of the changes. When the configuration data structure is updated, an auxiliary process is run in parallel with the operative process. The auxiliary process includes requesting functional entities of the device to report their configurations prevailing at an update time instant, and constructing an auxiliary configuration data structure on the basis of the reported information. The configuration data structure is updated by replacing a portion of the configuration data structure corresponding to the update time instant with the auxiliary configuration data structure. There is no need to freeze the configuration during the update because the auxiliary process is run in parallel with the operative process.