US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Anomalous pattern detection for control of computer networks" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,424, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Anomalous pattern detection for control of computer networks" was invented by Ananth Geethanath (Bothell, Wash.), Ali Alam (Sammamish, Wash.) and Shankaranand Arunachalam (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting anomalies in a data stream is described. The system receives the data stream that comprises values of metrics derived from observations of operation of a computing entity over a time window. A model comprising variances of the data over the time window is formed. The model identifies operatin...