ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,204, issued on April 1, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method to use polling to simulate server events" was invented by Nurit Guthrie (Yehud, Israel) and Itzik Kabessa (Yehud, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system, and method are provided. In one example, a method for polling for server events is described that includes storing, on a server, a list of events. The method also includes polling, by a client, the server for the list of events. The method includes receiving the list of events stored on the server. The method further includes broadcasting each event in the list of events...