US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 3 for "Automatic configuration of IoT devices for online data brokerage services" (American, Canadian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,025, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic configuration of IoT devices for online data brokerage services" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Flemming Stig Andreasen (Marlboro, N.J.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Daniel Eckstein (Bonn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device in a local network obtains discovery data for a node in the local network. The device provides the discovery data to a device management service. The device receives, based on the discovery data, a brokerage configuration for the node from the device management s...