US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 14 for "Data structure for managing captaincy qualification for search heads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,809, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data structure for managing captaincy qualification for search heads" was invented by Ankit Jain (San Francisco), Manu Jose Jr. (San Francisco), Bharath Kishore Reddy Aleti (San Francisco), Amritpal Singh Bath (San Francisco) and Yuan Xu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provides solutions for determining an elected search head captain is unqualified for the position, identifying a more qualified search head, and transferring the captain position to the more qualified search head. A method is provided that includes referencing qualifica...