ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,047, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Tracking application behavior based on packet spacing" was invented by Duncan Roweth (Bristol, Great Britain), Anthony M. Ford (Bristol, Great Britain) and Jonathan P. Beecroft (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system tracks, in a network device with multiple links, activity over a respective link for a predetermined amount of time. The activity comprises at least one of a number of idle periods or a duration of a respective idle period. The system divides a predetermined time interval into a number of bins. A ...