ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,478, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Extracting diagnostic metadata to identify problems in access-restricted computing environments" was invented by Nagarajan Muthukrishnan (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Srikanth Nagandla (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yu Li (Redwood Shores, Calif.) and Paul Hsu (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system performs tasks in an access restricted environment. Data is logged in diagnostic files about logical resources in use by the computer system as the computer system attempts to perform the tasks. Occasionally, a problem may prevent ...