US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 7 for "Hybrid execution of custom playbook codeblocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,218, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid execution of custom playbook codeblocks" was invented by Chakravarthy Sridhar (Campbell, Calif.), Minjie Qiu (San Jose, Calif.) and Atif Mahadik (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for enabling a cloud-based IT and security operations application to execute playbooks containing custom code in a manner that mitigates types of risk related to the misuse of cloud-based resources and security of user data. Users use a client application to create and modify playbooks and, upon receiving input to save a playbook, ...