US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 14 for "Analyzing encrypted traffic behavior using contextual traffic data" (Czech, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,008, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Analyzing encrypted traffic behavior using contextual traffic data" was invented by Jan Kohout (Roudnice Nad Labem, Czech Republic), Blake Harrell Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Martin Grill (Prague), David McGrew (Poolesville, Md.), Martin Kopp (Beroun, Czech Republic) and Tomas Pevny (Praha-Modrany, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device in a network detects an encrypted traffic flow associated with a client in the network. The device captures contextual traffic data regarding the encrypted traffic flow from one or m...