ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,534, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Execution of a second query on a set of data identified for execution of a first query" was invented by Nasim Bigdelu (North Vancouver, Canada), Margaret Kelley (Boulder, Colo.), Mirjana Tesic (Pacifica, Calif.), Rebecca Tortell (Los Altos, Calif.) and Rajesh Raman (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for generation and execution of modified queries. An input can be received via a visualization of a user interface. The input may identify a first field value and a first field for execution of a query. A set o...