ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,358, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Time-window based multi-stage sampling" was invented by Kourosh Lashgari (Sammamish, Wash.) and Prashanth Adhikari (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sampling approach for time-window based multi-stage sampling. The sampling system defines multiple time windows for sampling communications received by a computing system. The time windows are segmented into multiple time intervals. A portion of the multiple time intervals are randomly selected for sampling. A portion of the communications received during the selected time interv...