US 12,475,134 B2
Time disambiguation for natural language queries in network monitoring systems
Timothy Simon Stirling, Gilly (CH); Sofia Karygianni, Dübendorf (CH); Yannick Weibel, Cugy (CH); and Mohit Dubey, Amsterdam (NL)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/583,229.
Prior Publication US 2025/0265261 A1, Aug. 21, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 16/20 (2019.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01); G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06F 16/2458 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 16/2477 (2019.01) [G06F 16/212 (2019.01); G06F 16/2452 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
obtaining, by a device, a query from a user interface regarding a computer network;
retrieving, by the device and based on the query, schema metadata from a database;
resolving, by the device, any time ambiguity in the query using the schema metadata; and
providing, by the device, an answer to the query to the user interface, after resolving any time ambiguity in the query using the schema metadata.