US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on April 7 for "Selecting a custom function from available custom functions to be added into a playbook" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,533, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Selecting a custom function from available custom functions to be added into a playbook" was invented by Matthew Hanson (San Jose, Calif.), Sydney Flak (San Jose, Calif.), Colin Fagan (San Jose, Calif.), Jeffery Roberts (San Jose, Calif.), Govinda Salinas (San Jose, Calif.) and Philip Royer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for enabling users of an information technology (IT) and security operations application to create highly reusable custom functions for playbooks. The creation and execution of playbooks using...