ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,886, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identification of busy periods for network segments" was invented by Vishal S Desai (San Jose, Calif.), Young Il Choi (San Jose, Calif.) and Abhishek Datta (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to determining a period in which a network is busier relative to other periods. The method may comprise analyzing network utilization data from a network segment of the network. The network utilization data may be collected over a first duration. The method may further comprise of determining, from the network utilizatio...