ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,874, issued on May 6, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).
"Approximate querying of security event data" was invented by Miguel Casanova (Dublin) and David Tracey (Monasterboice, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to implement a bounded group by query system that computes approximate time-sliced statistics for groups of records in a dataset according to a group by query. In embodiments, a single pass scan of the dataset is performed to accumulate exact results for a maximum number of groups in a result grouping structure (RGS) and approximate results for additional groups in an approximate resul...