ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,550, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Model driven configuration of software installation operating states" was invented by Yanpei Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Archana Ganapathi (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Product usage may be modeled based on large volume, machine generated product usage data to optimize product pricing and operations. Specifically, the systems and methods described herein may utilize methods with key components to select the maximum number of dimensions that can be modeled based on the number of data points, use a logarithm kernel function to normali...