F5 Networks Assigned Patent

F5 Networks, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,762,471) developed by Vicat-Blanc, Pascale, San Francisco, CA, Guillier, Romaric, and Soudan, Sebastien, Lyons, France, for a “methods and systems for estimating and analyzing flow activity and path performance data in cloud or distributed systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Virtual resources associated with an execution of a user’s applications in a cloud or distributed resource configuration including virtual or physical machines, network services and storage are identified. A source and destination virtual machine, utilized by the user’s applications, are determined, and at least one source or destination virtual machine belongs to the identified virtual resources. Measurement software for a virtual machine is downloaded. The measurement software acquires data for connections established in a transport layer for communicating between the source and destination virtual machine. Data acquired from the measurement software is received at a first time, and the data includes measurements of variables for the data communications via the connections. Based upon the measurements, metrics that characterize the data communications at a first time are generated. Measurements made at an additional number of times are also received. Based upon the measurements, metrics are generated as a function of time.“

The patent application was filed on September 13, 2013 (14/027,142).