US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 2 for "Link safety guarantee" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,504, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Link safety guarantee" was invented by Jeffrey Wolfeld (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hancheng Hsiung (Fremont, Calif.) and Ze Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques in which a user device verifies the safety of a link to a resource. A first user device receives a link to a resource and transmits a request to a client link service to determine whether the link is safe. The first user device receives a response indicating that the link is safe and including a link safety guarantee. The first user device transmits the l...