US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 28 for "Extracting contextualized metrics from spans in a microservices-based architecture" (California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,807, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extracting contextualized metrics from spans in a microservices-based architecture" was invented by Mayank Agarwal (Mountain View, Calif.), Steven Flanders (Nashua, N.H.), Steven Karis (Redwood City, Calif.) and Justin Smith (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to extract more contextualized metrics associated with a particular service in a microservices-based application, a method of aggregating metrics comprises analyzing tags of spans for each trace and, based on a first predetermined set of rules, extracting one or more tags pre-s...