ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,765, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).
"Network anomaly detection" was invented by Giulio Giaconi (London), Samuel Moore (London), Christopher Nugent (London), Shuai Zhang (London) and Ian Cleland (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying anomalous network activity. The method includes identifying, based on network data representative of network activity within a network, at least one instance of a sequence of events that occurred within the network. A probability of the sequence of events occurring during non-anomalous network activity is obtained based on transition proba...