US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 24 for "Distributed license management for a data limited application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,631, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed license management for a data limited application" was invented by Vishal Patel (San Francisco), Jimmy John (San Francisco), Stephen Phillip Sorkin (San Francisco), Johnathon Lee Cervelli (Alameda, Calif.), Mitchell Neuman Blank Jr. (San Francisco) and Robin Kumar Das (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed towards enabling data volume and data type based licensing of software in a distributed system of a plurality of remote and/or local nodes. The invention enables measuring and optionally restricting...