ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,898, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).
"Scalable integrated information structure system" was invented by Michael Roybal (Woodinville, Wash.), Thomas J. Pitassi (Harrisburg, Pa.) and Joseph Conard (Grafton, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable integrated information system in a network environment, the system comprising: an agent instantiated as a virtual machine or virtual network function, the agent configured to communicate with the network environment, the network environment comprising a meta data inventory; a data store comprising a central metadata repository, the central m...