US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 21 for "Enforcing trusted and untrusted postures on data traffic and transports" (Canadian, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,313, issued on July 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enforcing trusted and untrusted postures on data traffic and transports" was invented by Pritam Baruah (Fremont, Calif.), Amjad Inamdar (Bangalore, India), Avinash Shah (Pleasanton, Calif.), Sagar Soni (Ottawa) and Hari Krishna Donti (Dublin, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, controllers, and computer-readable media that explicitly label data packets and interfaces as trusted or untrusted. The data packet labeling can occur at a centralized security hub or at the enforcement site itself, i.e., at the interface to the trusted ...