US Patent Issued to SRI International on June 23 for "Overlay for communication anonymity and privacy in a computer network" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,750, issued on June 23, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Overlay for communication anonymity and privacy in a computer network" was invented by Karim Eldefrawy (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of nodes connected to the plurality of servers that form a broadcasting overlay over a network for performing best effort broadcasting of data through the broadcasting overlay, may receive, from a first computing device of a plurality of computing devices connected to the broadcasting overlay, a first encrypted message and may perform best effort broadcasting of the first encrypted message th...