US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 4 for "Delivering identity provider specific configurations and policies" (British, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,406, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Delivering identity provider specific configurations and policies" was invented by Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Grayson (Maidenhead, Great Britain) and Eric Vyncke (Alleur, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for wireless communications are disclosed. The techniques include generating a provisioning domain (PVD) identifier by associating a roaming consortium organization identifier (RCOI), relating to an identity federation comprising an identity provider (IDP), with the PVD. The techniques further include providing PVD confi...