US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 4 for "Observability data trace sampling based on infrastructure health and situational awareness" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,878, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Observability data trace sampling based on infrastructure health and situational awareness" was invented by Walter Theodore Hulick Jr. (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method can include exchanging, by a first end device with a second end device, telemetry traces that are associated with spans of observability information within a computer network at a sampling configuration, the first end device being one of either an exporter head-end device or a collector tail-end device. The method can further include determining, ...