US Patent Issued to British Telecommunications on March 3 for "Network anomaly detection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,101, issued on March 3, was assigned to British Telecommunications PLC (London).

"Network anomaly detection" was invented by Michael Gibson (London), Alexander Healing (London) and Aditya Manocha (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of training a network anomaly detection system is disclosed. The method involves generating synthetic benign network data and synthetic anomalous network data and combining the synthetic benign network data and synthetic anomalous network data to generate combined synthetic network data having a predetermined density of anomalous network data. The combined synthetic network...