US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 31 for "Function selection in industrial networks" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,222, issued on March 31, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Function selection in industrial networks" was invented by Flemming Stig Andreasen (Marlboro, N.J.), Timothy P. Stammers (Raleigh, N.C.) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device associates available 5G functions stored by a network repository function with contextual information, wherein the contextual information maps each of the available 5G functions with a layer of a hierarchical security model for an industrial network. The device receives a request from a user equipment endpoint to commun...