ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,000, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Configuration and operational network observability using sliding window for append-only telemetry log" was invented by Xueqiang (Sherman) Ma (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Zhaomin Yin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for storing and processing network data for responding to queries for such network data. Operational network data is separated from configuration network data so that they can be processed and stored separately. A sliding window cache is used to continually, temporarily store network data objects having tim...