US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 18 for "Time disambiguation for natural language queries in network monitoring systems" (Swiss, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,134, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Time disambiguation for natural language queries in network monitoring systems" was invented by Timothy Simon Stirling (Gilly, Switzerland), Sofia Karygianni (Dubendorf, Switzerland), Yannick Weibel (Cugy, Switzerland) and Mohit Dubey (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may obtain a query from a user interface regarding a computer network. The device may retrieve, based on the query, schema metadata from a database. The device may resolve any time ambiguity in the query using the schema metadata. The device may provide an answer to the q...