ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,317, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enabling anomaly action rules in a network" was invented by George Tsironis (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a computer system. The method includes receiving first user input defining a filter of an anomaly action rule, the filter defining at least one of an attribute of an anomaly or an attribute of a computer network entity. The method also includes receiving second user input defining an action of the anomaly action rule. The method further includes generating the anomaly act...