ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,448, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TRIPWIRE INC. (Portland, Ore.).
"Agent message delivery fairness" was invented by Gwendolyn Meredith Hunt (Portland, Ore.), Benjamin J. Jansen (Tigard, Ore.), Eric L. Delaney (Portland, Ore.), Ryan Larson (Keizer, Ore.), Mitch Thomas (Portland, Ore.) and Brian McFeely (Orinda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed for generating, sending, and receiving messages in a networked environment using autonomous (or semi-autonomous) agents. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method of controlling message flow in a computer network comprising a plurality of...