ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,442, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Houston).

"Application records using session information" was invented by Kaushik Adesh Agrawal (Chelmsford, Mass.), Jisheng Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Greg Schrock (Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for the identification of applications from communication sessions of network traffic between client devices and the generation of application-specific metrics for network traffic associated with the applications. In one example, a router obtains metrics for a plurality of packets. The router determines a session of...