ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,614, issued on Oct. 20.
"Efficient transfer of collected discovery data" was invented by Steven W. Francis (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identifier associated with a plurality of different collection groups of computer system attributes is obtained. The computer system attributes are associated with the plurality of different collection groups based at least in part on recency of changes to the computer system attributes. A discovery scan of the plurality of different collection groups is performed at a scan instance. A first digest value associated with a specific collection group included in the plurality of differen...