US Patent Issued to Calix on Aug. 4 for "Automated network discovery, secure network communications, and automated network configuration" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,052, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Calix Inc (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated network discovery, secure network communications, and automated network configuration" was invented by Tian Deng (Nanjing, China), Wei Miao (Nanjing, China) and Youwu Tu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an approach for automated network discovery. Embodiments include generating and propagate a token containing identity information and a digital signature. Embodiments include receiving neighbor reports from a plurality of network nodes in response to the token, wherein each neighbor report includes neighbor relationship...