ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,832, issued on March 17, was assigned to Zscaler Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Detecting device change due to DHCP in sparsely populated log data" was invented by Sai Kishore Petla (Leander, Texas), Thomas James Geisler (Fort Myers, Fla.) and Scott Andrew Hankins (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting device change due to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) in sparsely populated log data include monitoring and logging network traffic data; identifying one or more outlier time gaps associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) address used to communicate over the network within the logged n...