ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,742, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Peer nodes discovery using secrets" was invented by Refael Ram (Herzeliya, Israel), Evgeny Tantsura (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alex Netes (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods herein are for a network having at least one host processor of a host node to discover peer nodes in the network. The at least one host processor can communicate a group identifier (ID) with further nodes in the network, where the group ID is based in part on a secret. A subset of the nodes can identify as part of a community within the network base...