ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,993, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Intelligent closed-loop device profiling for proactive behavioral expectations" was invented by Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a device controller determines a deliberate change to be made within a network, and generates a profile of a behavioral update that an analytics engine should expect to see based on the deliberate change. The device controller then transmits, to the analytics engine, the profile of the behavioral update to cause the analytics engine to p...