ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,535, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Proactive integrity checks" was invented by Andrea Cosentino (Rome) and Paolo Antinori (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to validate a project object model (POM) is received from a client device. The POM references one or more modules, each of which is associated with one or more artifacts. The artifacts associated with a module are downloaded to a staging repository along with checksums of the artifacts. The downloaded checksum is compared to a checksum calculated on the staging repository. Upon determining that the downloaded checksum matches the cal...