ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,941, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Context-based anomaly detection" was invented by Efrat Barkai (Givatayim, Israel), Yafit Segal (Petah Tikva, Israel), Neta Hasdai-Rippa (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Nir Arazy (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Time-series data is received. Using an identifier of the time-series data, contextual reference anomaly detection parameters are identified from a repository. A data trend of the time-series data is classified. Based on the classified data trend, a type of model to be generated for the time-series data is selected and a model having generate...