ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,386, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Automatically detecting authorized remote administration sessions in a network monitoring system" was invented by David McGrew (Poolesville, Md.), Martin Rehak (Prague), Blake Harrell Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Sunil Amin (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a service receives administration traffic data in a network associated with a remote administration session in which a control device remotely administers a client device. The service analyzes the administration traffic data to determine whether any portion of the administ...