US Patent Issued to Rapid7 on May 13 for "Mirroring traffic in a service mesh to detect and block offending microservices" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,603, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Mirroring traffic in a service mesh to detect and block offending microservices" was invented by Carl Eastman (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a server identifies a first and second microservice. The server creates a first mirror to mirror first traffic sent to the first microservice and a second mirror to mirror second traffic sent to the second microservice. The server configures the first and second mirror service to create mirrored traffic out-of-band of a critical request path of the first and second microservice. The server configur...