US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 11 for "Exploratory data analysis system for determination of beaconing risk score" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,258, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Exploratory data analysis system for determination of beaconing risk score" was invented by Francis Beckert (Mountain View, Calif.), Kristal Curtis (San Francisco), Om Rajyaguru (San Diego), Abraham Starosta (Boston) and Poonam Yadav (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search assistant engine that integrates with a data intake and query system and provides an intuitive user interface to assist a user in searching and evaluating indexed event data. Additionally, the search assistant engine provides logic to determine a mutual information sco...