US Patent Issued to Tanium on May 20 for "Software application updating in a local network" (California, Rhode Island, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,239, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tanium Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Software application updating in a local network" was invented by Max Freilich (El Cerrito, Calif.), Andrew R. White (Apex, N.C.), Christian L. Hunt (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Peter Constantine (Bradford, R.I.) and Peter Lincroft (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software updates by computational machines in a distributed system are facilitated by a server system that receives a master update from a remote server outside to the distributed system. The server system, which is in the distributed system, generates from the master update a first group of upd...