ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,671, issued on June 24, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Generating network flow profiles for computing entities" was invented by Rohan Gandhi (Pune, India), AVinash Nigam (Guwahati, India) and Madan Singhal (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a flow profile is provided. The method identifies a first plurality of flow measurements, each of which corresponding to one of a plurality of flows exchanged between a computing entity and a service during a first time period. The method, for each of a first plurality of buckets each of which has a pair of lower and upper bounds, increments a count...