US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Feb. 10 for "Known-deployed file metadata repository and analysis engine" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,708, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Known-deployed file metadata repository and analysis engine" was invented by Dan E. Summers (Buckley, Great Britain), Jeffrey Texada (Carrollton, Texas), Matthew E. Kelly (Chicago) and Steven Dimaria (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A known-deployed file metadata repository (KDFMR) and analysis engine enumerates reference lists of files stored on a software delivery point (SDP) and compares the enumerated list of files and associated metadata to previously stored values in the KDFMR. If newly stored or modified files are identified, the a...