ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,441, issued on June 2, was assigned to ExtraHop Networks Inc. (Seattle).
"Ranking entity importance via network monitoring" was invented by Lila Breina Frenkel (Seattle), Mark Douglas Bramley (Port Orchard, Wash.), Caroline Elizabeth Caldwell (Seattle), Swagat Dasgupta (Bothell, Wash.), Marc Adam Winners (Seattle) and Craig Michael Griffin (Pinedale, Wyo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments rank entity importance in monitored networks by analyzing network traffic to collect metrics representing relationships between entities. Network monitoring engines construct network graphs where nodes represent entities and edges represent ...