ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,371, issued on July 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Discovery of application relationships in clusters" was invented by Santhosh Kumar Vuda (Bangalore, India), Kiran Kumar Palukuri (Bangalore, India), Kumar G. Varun (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jerry Paul Russell (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems that determine relationships between network components of a cluster using packet filters are disclosed. A system can identify objects that implement services of a cluster and network connections associated with respective pairs of the objects. The system can also filter out network connectio...