ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,773, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Layered feature set levels in service monitoring system" was invented by Subramaniam Baskaran (Foster City, Calif.), Michael Margulis (Danville, Calif.), Vinay Sheshadri (Fremont, Calif.), Ian Edward Torbett (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Bixia Yan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of implementing a layered feature set management model by a service monitoring system includes: monitoring a feature set configuration associated with a specified application instance; setting, based on the feature set configuration, a feature s...