ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,731, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Hierarchical aggregation of select network traffic statistics" was invented by David Anthony Hughes (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Pawan Kumar Singh (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the collection, aggregation, and processing of network traffic statistics for a plurality of network appliances in a wide area network. Select network traffic statistics can be collected and associated with a hierarchical string, and aggregated over time. In this way, only information that is like...