US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 3 for "Trusted and secure peer-to-peer backup and recovery" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,827, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Trusted and secure peer-to-peer backup and recovery" was invented by Jay Kemper Johnston (Raleigh, N.C.), Magnus Mortensen (Cary, N.C.) and David C. White (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for peer-to-peer backup in an administrative domain are described. The techniques may include identifying, by a first device, a second device as a trusted peer device. The techniques may also include receiving an advertisement that the second device supports a peer-to-peer backup system and transmitting an acknowledgement to the second device that...