ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,706, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Musarubra US LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Agent presence for self-healing" was invented by Shashin Thakur (Ahmedabad, India), Arvind K. Boggarapu (Benagaluru, India) and Harvir Singh (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one or more examples, there is disclosed a system and method of detecting agent presence for self-healing. An out-of-band monitoring process, such as Intel(R) AMT, or any process in firmware executing on a co-processor, may monitor one or more processes to determine if one goes down or otherwise meets a security criterion. Crashed processes may be reported to an enterpr...