ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,060, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer readable media for identifying relationships between network applications from monitored network traffic" was invented by Ethan Paul Spurlock (Cedar Park, Texas) and Marc Owen Magnuson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying dependencies between network applications includes determining, from the network traffic or the network traffic metadata, counts indicating numbers of times that applications residing on the web servers are contacted after the same and other applications residing on...