US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 12 for "Opportunistic relay among mobile communication devices" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,220, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Opportunistic relay among mobile communication devices" was invented by Amine Choukir (Lausanne, Switzerland), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland) and Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising monitoring dynamic locations of a plurality of mobile communication devices within a physical area covered by a wireless communication network, wherein keys are distributed to the mobile communication devices at associati...