US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on April 22 for "Access point verification using crowd-sourcing" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,520, issued on April 22, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Access point verification using crowd-sourcing" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for verifying Access Points (APs) using crowd sourcing. In one example, a STA establishes a first non-verified connection, based on security material, with a source AP in a wireless infrastructure. A target AP in a wireless infrastructure obtains an indication that the STA is attempting to establish a second non-verified connecti...