ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,409, issued on April 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Third-party service and application data for quality of service" was invented by Xiaoying Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jisheng Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Prashant Kumar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Pawan Gandhi (Pitampura, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for a network management system (NMS) that performs quality of service (QoS) monitoring and troubleshooting of user experience issues occurring outside of a network managed by the NMS using data obtained from third-party sources. For example, an NMS obtains third-party data of a thi...