US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 15 for "Analyzing policies executed in a computer system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,730, issued on April 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Analyzing policies executed in a computer system" was invented by Matthew Richard James Thornhill (London), Keith Jeremy Posner (London) and David Jon Griffin (Reigate, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method, apparatus and computer program product for analysing policies executed in a computer system which comprises a plurality of entities. The system is operable to detect one or more policies within a set of policies that have executed a predetermined number of times within a time window; identify a pluralit...