ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,659, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Advanced security through anomaly detection and locating in wireless networks" was invented by Vijay S Reddy (Foster City, Calif.), Peiman Amini (Fremont, Calif.) and Ardalan Alizadeh (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes collecting, by a device and from each of one or more access points over time within a monitored location, a plurality of hash values, each of the plurality of hash values based on a combination of a plurality of location-related metrics for a respective access point of the one or more ...