US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on July 28 for "Predictive bad event alert generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,767, issued on July 28, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Predictive bad event alert generation" was invented by Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey (Fremont, Calif.) and Mohil Khare (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Segments of a network having connectivity issues are detected in a network environment that may include one or more cloud computing platforms. A mutual information algorithm is used to determine relevance of network element factors, a subset of factors are selected based on relevance, and clustered according to values for the subset of factors, and quality of the clusters evaluated. Vari...