ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,831, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reporting based on collecting and monitoring traffic on network" was invented by Stanley Wu (Shanghai), Yuefeng Jiang (Shanghai), Qiang Wang (Zhejiang, China), Daemon Yang (LiaoNing, China) and Siwei Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for generating a report in response to detected conditions in a network environment. A method includes: generating one or more triggering policies; determining if the one or more of the triggering policies has been satisfied; starting a ne...