US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on May 5 for "Data security for networks combining encryption with error correction" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,174, issued on May 5, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data security for networks combining encryption with error correction" was invented by Scott Roy Fluhrer (North Attleboro, Mass.) and Gilberto Loprieno (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example embodiment, data is received at a node of a network. The data includes encrypted data segments containing data portions and error correction information. The encrypted data segments are decrypted to produce the data portions and the error correction information. Error correction is performed on the data portions using the error correction information. Cor...