ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,486, issued on May 27, was assigned to Tanium Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).
"Parallel distributed network management" was invented by David Hindawi (Berkeley, Calif.), Orion Hindawi (Piedmont, Calif.), Lisa Lippincott (Berkeley, Calif.) and Peter Lincroft (Albany, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-static collection of machines self-organizes into a linear communication orbit. A server has sent a data unit to a subset of machines in the linear communication orbit. A first machine receives a plurality of shards of the data unit from an upstream neighbor of the first machine in the linear communication orbit and sends the plurali...