ServiceNow Assigned Patent

ServiceNow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned a patent (11652790) developed by Chan, Antony, Pasadena, CA, for a “quarantine for cloud-based services.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A quarantine system could be disposed between an outer firewall and an inner firewall. The quarantine system may include persistent storage containing mappings between computing devices disposed within the inner firewall and data sources disposed outside the outer firewall. The quarantine system may include one or more processors configured to perform operations that include requesting and receiving, based on the mappings, a software-related update from a data source, the software-related update being targeted for deployment on the computing devices. The operations may also include assigning the software-related update for review by a group of one or more agents authorized to approve or reject the software-related update. The operations may also receiving an indication that the software-related update has been approved by the one or more agents and, responsive to receiving the indication, transmitting, based on the mappings, the software-related update to a recipient device within the inner firewall.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-12-07 (17/113825).