US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on March 24 for "Assessing subjective trust" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,569, issued on March 24, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Assessing subjective trust" was invented by Charles Damian O'Neill (Ballymena, Great Britain), Simon James (Newtownards, Great Britain), Kieran Gerald McPeake (Belfast, Great Britain) and Hayden Paul Shorter (Bangor, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques that include assessing trust in a system based on subjective factors. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes determining, by the computing system, a prerequisite score for a network entity in a computer network; determining, by th...