US Patent Issued to Calix on Sept. 1 for "Automated network discovery, secure network communications, and automated network configuration" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,344, issued on Sept. 1, 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 layer 2 (L2) network security. Embodiments include determining that a new node has been added to an L2 network managed by a central control node. Embodiments include transmitting, to the new node, a certificate chain of the central control node, one or more supported encryption algorithms, and a share...