ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,226, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Efficiently analyzing trace data" was invented by Joseph Ari Ross (Redwood City, Calif.), Julien Didier Jean Veron Vialard (Stanford, Calif.) and Eric Allen Wohlstadter (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Queries may be resolved against large quantities of collected data (such as traces) by dividing collected data into multiple time intervals and incrementally assigning multiple workers the query and the collected data over the multiple time intervals. For each time interval, these workers may conditionally update one or more summary dat...