US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Serverless identity management" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,942, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Serverless identity management" was invented by Owen Friel (Salthill, Ireland) and Richard Lee Barnes (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for allowing an organization to manage user identities. In some examples, the management of user identities may be serverless. In some examples, serverless identity management may be enabled through a distributed application on user devices of the organization. The application may generate and/or store information related to the user identities on the user devices. Serv...