US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 12 for "Smart caching for threat intelligence" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,024, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Smart caching for threat intelligence" was invented by Douglas North Franklin (Cumming, Ga.) and Cheng-Ta Lee (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for caching threat intelligence enhancements in a threat intelligence cache of a threat intelligence computing system. The mechanisms, in response to a threat intelligence enhancement (TIE) being generated based on threat intelligence data, apply one or more threat intelligence cache policies to the TIE to determine a default cache retention period for a TIE type cor...