ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,671, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Health-based management of a network" was invented by Nilakantan Mahadevan (Bloomington, Minn.), Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Vrashi Ponnappa Puchimanda Ramacha (Karnataka, India) and Laurence Scott Kaplan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system stores, in a first database having a first schema, metrics received from a network comprising communication nodes, the metrics relating to operations of the communication nodes, and the first database associating the metrics with metadata corresponding to h...