US Patent Issued to Tanium on Feb. 17 for "Automated mapping of multi-tier applications in a distributed system" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,623, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Tanium Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Automated mapping of multi-tier applications in a distributed system" was invented by Naveen Goela (Berkeley, Calif.), Rishi Kant (Foster City, Calif.), Andrew R. White (Apex, N.C.), Christian L. Hunt (Chapell Hill, N.C.) and David Irwin (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application mapping procedure obtains and aggregates application mapping information from a plurality of machines in a distributed system. An application dependency map, including first layer of application mapping information, is initialized, and then a first query is sent to one ...