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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2019
Applicant:

Virtual Instruments Worldwide, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Devin Blinn Avery, Madbury, NH (US);

Francis Niestemski, Longmeadow, MA (US);

Ryan E. Perkowski, Middletown, DE (US);

Nicholas York, San Ramon, CA (US);

Leo Szumel, South Lake Tahoe, CA (US);

Dale Coldiron, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01); H04L 12/755 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/12 (2013.01); G06F 13/385 (2013.01); H04L 41/22 (2013.01); H04L 45/021 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method comprising: receiving object identifiers associated with each entity of an enterprise network, receiving relationship data indicating directionality of data flow between two or more entities of enterprise network, receiving search query which includes at least one of an object identifier associated with one of the entities or relationship data indicating directionality of data flow associated with one of the entities, traversing a portion of topology to identify objects of the portion of the topology and a pivot point, the pivot point being directionally coupled to at least three objects, identifying two mini-topologies based on two of the least three objects of the pivot point, traversing each of the two mini-topologies to identify further objects within the portion of the topology, generating a partial topology based on the traversal of the portion of the topology and of the mini-topologies, and providing information including objects identified in the partial topology.


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