US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on March 18 for "Early validation of communication behavior" (Egyptian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,904, issued on March 18, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Early validation of communication behavior" was invented by Farida Shafik (Cairo), Shary Beshara (Cairo) and Michael Estrin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes extracting an expected communication specification of a service that is in development in a build pipeline, stimulating the service to exercise communication variations of the service, capturing communication traffic involving the service and one or more endpoints, comparing the captured communication traffic to the expected communication specification, a...