US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Nov. 4 for "Network device agentless validation" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,066, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Network device agentless validation" was invented by Gregory Herrera (Sea Girt, N.J.), Robert Kong (Tinton Falls, N.J.), Emily Lu (Morganville, N.J.), Brittany Vassallo (Howell, N.J.) and Meredith Gee (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system may obtain baseline attributes associated with a plurality of representative files of a first type of network equipment, where the baseline attributes comprise a plurality of baseline checksums associated with the plurality of representative files, obtain snapshot attributes assoc...