US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 22 for "Computing motif signatures for QoE disruptions" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,720, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Computing motif signatures for QoE disruptions" was invented by Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland) and Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device obtains a set of probing motifs. Each probing motif groups similar patterns of path probing results for one or more path metrics in a network. The device generates signatures for the set of probing motifs. Each signature relates a probing strategy with a measure of performance of a classifier to detect that motif were path probing to be conducted ...