US Patent Issued to GFI USA on June 10 for "Method and system for triggering augmented data collection on a network device based on traffic patterns" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,244, issued on June 10, was assigned to GFI USA LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Method and system for triggering augmented data collection on a network device based on traffic patterns" was invented by Greg Veres (Waterloo, Canada) and Sandra Loop (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for increasing the collection of network traffic data in a network based on the occurrence of predetermined criteria. A network appliance manages network traffic in the network and passes data traffic on the network. Network traffic data is collected based on the data traffic passing through the network appliance at a normal level. ...