US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 20 for "Unique initialization vectors for secure communication over multipath networks" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,675, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Unique initialization vectors for secure communication over multipath networks" was invented by Govind Prasad Sharma (Union City, Calif.), Prabhu Balakannan (Milpitas, Calif.), Wanli Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Scott Roy Fluhrer (North Attleboro, Mass.) and Sivakumar Kailas (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein can allocate respective unique secure channel identifiers (SCIs) to respective uplink encryptor interfaces which provide intersite connectivity over multipathing internet protocol (IP) networks between a first...