ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,764, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).
"Intelligent graph analysis for network management" was invented by Debashish Roy (San Diego), Brent Shaffer (San Diego) and Cory King (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to facilitate the identification of connections or relationships in a network that are high impact in order to generate recommendations for future network growth are disclosed. The embodiments convert network maps into graphs comprising nodes and edges. The system identifies the edge that, when removed, causes the greatest impact on the network as a who...