ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,772, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Techniques for monitoring node status using a throughput metric" was invented by Vamshi Krishna Kancharla (Hyderabad, India), Edet Edet Nkposong (Mercer Island, Wash.), Murat Acikgoz (Kirkland, Wash.) and Hrishit Harshadbhai Patel (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for detecting possible failure in network nodes by monitoring, by a monitoring application, a data throughput for at least one of data sent or received at a network node over a time period, detecting a possible failure of the network node based ...