ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,199, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ivanti Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).
"Endpoint scan and profile generation" was invented by Paul Keith Branton (Rochdale, Great Britain) and Jens Miltner (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of profiling an endpoint includes generating a structured request including a set of inquiries, each of which being directed to an endpoint parameter and including a parameter name. The method includes generating a scan message including the set of inquiries and an additional inquiry directed to an additional endpoint parameter. The method includes receiving a single response ...