Workday Assigned Patent

Workday, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,666,746) developed by Patanella, Guido, Barcelona, Spain, for a “system for discovering services.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system for discovering services includes a storage device and a processor. The storage device is configured to store a catalog of software installed packages. A processor is configured to scan a file system to identify configuration files associated with one or more packages found in the catalog of software installed packages, identify a subset of configuration files associated with executing processes by finding references to a configuration file in active processor memory and placing the configuration file in the subset of configuration files, and verify that a network port associated with an executing process corresponds to a designated network port as indicated in the configuration file associated with the executing process.”

The patent application was filed on September 24, 2018 (16/139,537).