ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,931, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Ordering security incidents using alert diversity" was invented by Anna Swanson Bertiger (Seattle) and Michael Steven Flowers (Kent, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a computer network monitored for security threats, security incidents corresponding to groups of mutually related security alerts may be ranked based on values of a diversity metric computed for each incident from attribute values of an attribute, or multiple attributes, associated with the security alerts. In some embodiments, values of attribute-specific sub-metrics are...