US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 3 for "Device discovery system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,537, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device discovery system" was invented by Steve Epstein (Hashmonaim, Israel), Ezra Darshan (Beit Shemesh, Israel), Harel Cain (Jerusalem) and Shali Mor (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device discovery system includes a data storage medium to store a clustered data structure including device signatures grouped according to clusters. Each device signature includes device information. Each cluster from a sub-set of the clusters has a different device name. The system also includes an input/output sub-system to receive, fro...