US Patent Issued to NetScout Systems on March 18 for "Systems and methods for performing computer network service chain analytics" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. RE50,343, issued on March 18, was assigned to NetScout Systems LLC (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for performing computer network service chain analytics" was invented by Bruce A. Kelley Jr. (Westford, Mass.) and Gregory Mayo (Salem, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing computer network service chain analytics includes network-connected devices containing a plurality of virtual network functions having elements and a data model for storing a plurality of metrics related to the plurality of virtual network functions and a service chain intelligence engine in communication with the one or more network-connecte...