US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 11 for "Out-of-band mechanisms to enhance security of messaging layer security (mls) protocol-based communications" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,740, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Out-of-band mechanisms to enhance security of messaging layer security (mls) protocol-based communications" was invented by Richard Lee Barnes (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein is a Message Layer Security (MLS)-based secure channel communication arrangement that involves a minimal set of changes to the MLS standard to reduce the redundant overhead in case of two-party (one-to-one or 1:1) communication. These techniques reduce the communication and computation complexity of both devices involved in establishing and supporti...