US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 30 for "Detecting and alerting on domain fronting within a network" (Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,698, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Detecting and alerting on domain fronting within a network" was invented by David Arthur McGrew (Poolesville, Md.) and Blake Harrell Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for detecting and alerting on domain fronting within a network using network location context. Popular services are often hosted by multiple CDNs to increase resiliency and decrease latency. The techniques described herein utilize this insight to identify anomalous encrypted sessions by first creating a baseline ...