ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,648, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application transaction monitoring with contextual flow information" was invented by Ryan Nicholas Terbush (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Jason Lo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes evaluating, by a device while traversing a plurality of ordered telemetry spans of a given trace message, whether any of the plurality of ordered telemetry spans are starting point spans of an application transaction and reporting, by the device, metrics corresponding to a particular application transaction based on a corresponding ...