US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 9 for "Network failure prevention" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,211, issued on June 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network failure prevention" was invented by David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Thomas Szigeti (Vancouver, Canada), Barry Qi Yuan (Vancouver, Canada) and Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for mitigating network failures (e.g., SLA violations, service degradations, network outages, etc.) based on output(s) from a predictive network system. The techniques may include determining that a failure is predicted to occur in a network and determining a correlation between the failure and a previous failure that occu...