US Patent Issued to Qintel on Sept. 9 for "Discovering computing entities communicating with a network communication protocol" (Pennsylvania, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,473, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Qintel LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Discovering computing entities communicating with a network communication protocol" was invented by Matthew Karl Geiger (Austin, Texas) and Philip Furrie Burdette (Wexford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method for discovering an entity communicating using a network communication protocol. A scanning system of a system transmits, at a plurality of communication ports, a message using the network communication protocol to elicit a response from an entity accessing one of the communication ports. The transmitting includes emulating a portio...