US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 5 for "Application degradation root causing and rerouting using time series clustering" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,774, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application degradation root causing and rerouting using time series clustering" was invented by Vinay Kumar Kolar (San Jose, Calif.) and Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device forms clusters of network paths via which traffic for an online application is conveyed by applying clustering to time series of quality of experience metrics for the online application. The device calculates, for a particular cluster of network paths among the clusters of network paths, correlation metrics b...