ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,951, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Unsupervised outlier detection in time-series data" was invented by Sid Ryan (Montreal), Petar Djukic (Nepean, Canada) and Todd Morris (Stittsville, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting patterns in data from a time-series and for detecting outliers in network data in an unsupervised manner are provided. In one implementation, a method includes the steps of obtaining network data from a network to be monitored and creating a window from the obtained network data. The method also includes the step of detecting outliers of the obtaine...