US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 16 for "Advanced automation confidence reinforcement through observation of path changes" (North Carolina, Massachusetts, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,808, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Advanced automation confidence reinforcement through observation of path changes" was invented by Steve Michael Holl (Sarasota, Fla.), Jason A. Kuhne (Hopkinton, Mass.), Gonzalo Salgueiro (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jason Michael Coleman (Hendersonville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: at a controller of a network, establishing a historical probability of success that an automated response, when executed on the network, will remediate an alarm event: performing a service test on the network to collect first path information from the net...