Patent Title Patent Number Patented

Organizing Network Performance Metrics Into Historical Anomaly Dependency Data

9,588,506

9,632,858

January 31, 2017

Organizing Network Performance Metrics Into Historical Anomaly Dependency Data

9,632,858

April 25, 2017

Hierarchical Service Oriented Application Topology Generation for a Network

9,917,751

March 13, 2018

System and Methods of Constructing a Network Topology

10,108,411

October 23, 2018

Hierarchical Service Oriented Application Topology Generation for a Network

10,200,260

February 5, 2019

Tuning Context-Aware Rule Engine for Anomaly Detection

10,210,038

February 19, 2019

Context-Aware Rule Engine for Anomaly Detection

10,228,996

March 12, 2019

Anomaly Detection Using Circumstance-Specific Detectors

10,261,851

April 16, 2019

Systems and Methods of Monitoring a Network Topology

10,365,915

July 30, 2019

Resource and Metric Ranking by Differential Analysis

10,404,524

September 3, 2019

Ranking Network Anomalies in an Anomaly Cluster

10,454,753

October 22, 2019

Hierarchical Service Oriented Application Topology Generation for a Network

10,693,750

June 22, 2020

Tuning Context-Aware Rule Engine for Anomaly Detection

10,698,757

June 30, 2020

Anomaly Detection Using Circumstance-Specific Detectors

11,150,974

October 19, 2021

Tuning Context-Aware Rule Engine for Anomaly Detection

11,275,642

March 15, 2022


Akka has consistently led the way in enabling intelligent, resilient, and scalable distributed systems. Designed to meet the demands of modern cloud-native architectures, Akka offers specialized, fine-grained instrumentation and adaptive operations tailored to complex, asynchronous, and stateful applications. These capabilities are essential in environments where real-time responsiveness, fault tolerance, and elasticity are not just beneficial, but required—particularly in emerging classes of agentic, self-directed systems.

Our patent portfolio underscores a long-standing commitment to innovation in this space. It reflects pioneering research and development in distributed systems intelligence, dynamic system introspection, and automated operational behavior. These patented technologies protect and support our sustained investment in solving the most challenging problems of distributed application lifecycle management—from development, deployment and scaling, to failure recovery and autonomous optimization.

Today, Akka is a platform that enable always-on, self-healing systems with deep runtime awareness. Akka not only details system visibility, but also the intelligent feedback loops necessary for fully responsive and self-managed clustering. In the context of actor-based agentic AI systems operating within Kubernetes, Akka delivers the kind of deep operational integration and real-time system intelligence that is simply unattainable with other tools. These capabilities position Akka as a foundational runtime for the next generation of distributed, agentic, and business-critical applications.

What distinguishes Akka from conventional frameworks is its tight integration of operational intelligence with runtime behavior. Akka's patented mechanisms enable real-time system introspection, telemetry correlation across actor hierarchies and event streams, and adaptive operational responses based on behavioral inference—not merely threshold-based alerting. This includes the dynamic assessment of actor system health, automated cluster topology adjustment, and propagation of contextual system metadata to influence message routing, supervision, and scaling decisions.

Our patent portfolio covers innovations in areas such as:

  • Distributed system self-awareness, including techniques for monitoring causality, latency propagation, and inter-actor dependencies.
  • Intelligent cluster orchestration, where Akka nodes participate in autonomous decision-making for bootstrapping, role reassignment, and load balancing.
  • Fine-grained instrumentation of asynchronous message flows, allowing for low-overhead extraction of system-wide insights without modifying user logic.

These capabilities are essential to managing distributed systems capable of delivering high-availability, low-latency, and strongly consistent runtime behavior across heterogeneous environments.

The depth of integration between the Akka runtime and Akka Automated Operations reflects a novel, cohesive approach to distributed systems design—one that explicitly addresses the realities of microservices, stateful workloads, and the increasing need for autonomy in software infrastructure. These advances continue to be protected through ongoing patent development and form the basis for next-generation adaptive application platforms.