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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Anna Igorevna Bokhan-Dilawari, San Ramon, CA (US);
Martin Mares, Prague, CZ;
Vojtěch Mucha, Prague, CZ;
Martin Hvizdoš, Prague, CZ;
Marek Timr, Prague, CZ;
Štěpán Vávra, Prague, CZ;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method comprises: accessing information from an extensibility platform configured to monitor observability data from a monitored computer network topology; receiving a query regarding the information, the query formatted according to a unified query language for the extensibility platform; determining which specific requested data from the information to return in response to the query based on a fetch block within the query; determining one or more bounding blocks within the query that establish one or more boundaries on the query, wherein one of the one or more bounding blocks comprises a topology boundary block to define a specific topology of the monitored computer network topology, wherein the specific topology identifies one or more entities within the monitored computer network topology to which the query is specifically directed; and returning results of the query as defined by the requested data to return and limited to the specific topology.