ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,666, issued on March 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Simplifying configuration of metrics with data preview" was invented by Jaideep Padhye (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Quinn Erwin (Oakland, Calif.), Vishweshwar Ghanakota (Cardiff, Calif.) and Tom Thekkel Jose (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device identifies a set of attributes from telemetry data generated by one or more agents regarding an online application accessible via a network. The device provides an interactive display to a user interface that includes options for a user to specify a selection of one or mo...