US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 24 for "Proof-of-work challenge to transmit data to a non-authenticated gateway" (North Carolina, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,517, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Proof-of-work challenge to transmit data to a non-authenticated gateway" was invented by Ankush Gupta (Seattle), Gaurava Srivastava (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Christian Rudolf Hoermann (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a proof-of-work challenge for transmission of data to a non-authenticated gateway is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by the gateway and from a device, a challenge request; and transmitting a proof-of-work challenge to the device. The method further includes receiving, from the de...