ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,571, issued on July 21, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Identifying device type using machine learning on sparsely populated log data" was invented by Sai Kishore Petla (Leander, Texas), Thomas James Geisler (Fort Myers, Fla.), Scott Andrew Hankins (Cupertino, Calif.) and Edward G. Bruck (Kelowna, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying device type within a network include receiving data associated with monitoring network communication traffic associated with a plurality of devices; analyzing the data of the plurality of devices, wherein the analyzing includes identifying one or mor...