US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on April 7 for "Monitoring in distributed computing system" (Belgian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,069, issued on April 7, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Monitoring in distributed computing system" was invented by Cristian Radu (Beauvechain, Belgium), Mehdi Collinge (Mont-Sainte-Aldegonde, Belgium) and Omar Laazimani (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described of monitoring a service performed at a computing node. The computing node is one of a plurality of computing nodes in a distributed computing system. Each computing node is adapted to perform at least one service for clients. A monitoring process is adapted to monitor a service process performing the process. In the method, ...