US Patent Issued to ServiceNow on Jan. 27 for "Efficient cloud-based discovery of computing resources" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,044, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient cloud-based discovery of computing resources" was invented by Tom Bar Oz (Petah Tikva, Israel), Shay Herzog (Petah Tikva, Israel), Sapir Keidar (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Asaf Garty (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment may involve requesting and receiving, from a distributed computing platform, resource indicators that specify a set of resources provided by the distributed computing platform, wherein the set of resources is associated with a user identifier; parsing the resource indicators to locate datacenter...