US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "Cloud-based actions service for a data intake and query system" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,482, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud-based actions service for a data intake and query system" was invented by Matthew Sayar (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Atif Mahadik (Fremont, Calif.) and Anne Yeh (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for using a cloud-based actions service to provide IT and security-related applications with a centralized interface for requesting the performance of a wide range of actions involving third party services and devices. Any application with the ability to send API requests to the actions service can thus request the inv...