US Patent Issued to SPLUNK on May 13 for "Network activity identification and characterization based on characteristic active directory (AD) event segments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,937, issued on May 13, was assigned to SPLUNK Inc. (San Francisco).

"Network activity identification and characterization based on characteristic active directory (AD) event segments" was invented by Stanislav Miskovic (San Francisco), Satheesh Kumar Joseph Durairaj (San Francisco), George Apostolopulous (San Francisco) and Dimitrios Terzis (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of obtaining and utilizing an activity signature that is representative of a specific category of network activities based on directory service (DS) log data. The activity signature may be determining by a learning process, includin...