ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,640, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Intelligent change window planner" was invented by Shankar Ramanathan (Allen, Texas), Muhilan Natarajan (Allen, Texas), Vishal Desai (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for determine a change window of least impact based on the type of activity, urgency, and preference, and highlighting risk(s) of choosing a change window. The techniques streamline and automate change window technology and provide customized and pe...