US Patent Issued to ARISTA NETWORKS on Aug. 4 for "System and method for identifying an application initiating a communication in a computing environment" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,116, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ARISTA NETWORKS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for identifying an application initiating a communication in a computing environment" was invented by Troy Kent Jr. (Durham, N.C.) and Gary Golomb (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method to identify a security entity in a computing environment is disclosed. Communication between a user computer and at least one destination computer by a security appliance is monitored by a security appliance. Selective information from the communication is extracted. A primary fingerprint is generated using a subset of the ...