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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2015
Tripwire, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Gwendolyn Meredith Hunt, Portland, OR (US);
Benjamin J. Jansen, Tigard, OR (US);
Eric L. Delaney, Portland, OR (US);
Ryan Larson, Keizer, OR (US);
Mitch Thomas, Portland, OR (US);
Brian McFeely, Orinda, CA (US);
Tripwire, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
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 agents, agent data consumers, and an agent message bridge configured to send messages by receiving a set of messages, at least some of the messages including a message type, queuing the set of messages in a spooler that includes an indication of the respective message type for each of the messages, receive an indication that sending some of the messages queued in the spooler should be delayed for one or more indicated message types, and sending at least one of the messages to a selected one or more of the agent data consumers, the sent messages not being of the indicated message types.