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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2022
Servicenow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aparna Ganti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Lilia Manguy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Akhilesh Kashyap Kittane Ravikumar, Kirkland, WA (US);
Siyou Li, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kavitha Kotti, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shijin Joshua, San Diego, CA (US);
Anthony Walter Branton, Kirkland, WA (US);
Luc John Johnson, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ganesh Bhattarai, San Diego, CA (US);
Hnin Haymar, San Diego, CA (US);
ServiceNow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Persistent storage may contain definitions of: configuration items (CIs) each having attributes that characterize a respective hardware or software component, a list of data sources used to update at least some of the CIs, and an auto-attestation time period; and one or more processors configured to: identify a plurality of the CIs for auto-attestation; for each respective CI, determine a respective condition of whether: (i) a data-source attribute of the respective CI indicates that it was updated by a trusted data source, and (ii) a most-recent-update attribute of the respective CI indicates that it was updated within the auto-attestation time period; and mark each respective CI based on its respective condition, wherein the respective CI is marked as auto-attested when its respective condition is true, and wherein the respective CI is marked as not auto-attested when its respective condition is false.