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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2012
Donghua Deng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kent A. Watsen, Leesburg, VA (US);
James E. Fehrle, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jianguo HU, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xingang Huang, Campbell, CA (US);
Donghua Deng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kent A. Watsen, Leesburg, VA (US);
James E. Fehrle, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jianguo Hu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xingang Huang, Campbell, CA (US);
Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described for merging device schemas to manage different versions of network devices in the same device family. In one example, a computing device includes an interface to receive a first schema to be used for managing a first version of a device in a device family and a second, different schema to be used for managing a second version of the device, a computer-readable medium encoded with instructions for a schema merger module, and a processor to execute the schema merger module to merge the first schema and the second schema to produce a resulting merged schema to be used for managing both the first version of the device and the second version of the device, wherein the resulting merged schema expresses differences between the first schema and the second schema and includes a single instance of each common portion between the first schema and the second schema.