ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,220, issued on May 5, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Virtual network assistant with location input" was invented by Mohammad Zohoorian (San Francisco), Ebrahim Safavi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shmuel Shaffer (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described in which a network management system (NMS) is configured to determine a root cause of degraded network performance based on SLE metrics and the locations associated with network devices providing the SLE metrics. The NMS can determine service level experience (SLE) metrics associated with each client device on a network and locat...