US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 31 for "Testing agent for application dependency discovery, reporting, and management tool" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,506, issued on March 31, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Testing agent for application dependency discovery, reporting, and management tool" was invented by Muralidharan Balasubramanian (Gaithersburg, Md.), Eric K. Barnum (Midlothian, Va.), Julie Dallen (Vienna, Va.) and David Watson (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring app...