US Patent Issued to Barracuda Networks on Sept. 16 for "System and method for appliance configuration identification and profile management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,434, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Barracuda Networks Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"System and method for appliance configuration identification and profile management" was invented by Phil Ploquin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nicholas Tillman (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Hari Potaraju (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new approach is proposed to support appliance configuration identification and profiling management. An appliance scanning component running on an appliance is configured to scan, examine, and determine current configuration of the appliance including hardware components and/or software components installed ...