Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for determining entry points for mapping a network
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Application No.: US15722943Application Date: 2017-10-02
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Publication No.: US10911314B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Yuval Rimar , Haviv Rosh
- Applicant: ServiceNow, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
- Current Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder PC
- Main IPC: G06F15/177
- IPC: G06F15/177 ; H04L12/24 ; H04L12/26 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
The present approach relates to determining suitable entry points for initiating discovery and mapping of an enterprise service. For example, one or more tables may be utilized that include information regarding connections and/or communication between configuration items (CIs) of the enterprise service. From the tables, a graph may be created with nodes of the graph representing an internet protocol (IP) address and a port associated with the CIs, and edges of the graph representing the connections and/or communication between the CIs. The graph may be traversed according to outbound edges starting from a node with zero or few outbound edges. The nodes that are unreachable, or untraversed, may be flagged as suitable entry point candidates. In some embodiments, the flagged suitable entry point candidates may be reconciled with already known entry points included in the one or more tables.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190104023A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ENTRY POINTS FOR MAPPING A NETWORK Public/Granted day:2019-04-04
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