AlienVault Assigned Patent
Storage for network information
By Francis Pelletier | February 16, 2022 at 2:00 pmAlienVault, Inc., San Mateo, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,223,519) developed by Lisle, Alex, Thornton, Roger, Spitler, Russell, Austin, TX, Blasco, Jaime, San Francisco, CA, and Srinivasagoplan, Srivathsan, Austin, TX, for a “storage system for network information.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Techniques are disclosed relating to storage of network event information for multiple tenants. In some embodiments, one or more host computer systems are configured to maintain a plurality of containers operable to isolate network event information of a plurality of tenants from others of the plurality of tenants. The plurality of containers includes a first container that includes a first database executable to store network event information for a first of the plurality of tenants, and a second container that includes a second database executable to store network event information for a second of the plurality of tenants. In some embodiments, a management computer system is configured to receive, from the first tenant, a request to access network event information of the first tenant and route the request to a host computer system maintaining the first container to cause the first database to service the request.”
The patent application was filed on April 26, 2021 (17/240,313).