US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 12 for "Perimeter formation and mobile device detection in a RPL network" (Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,305, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Perimeter formation and mobile device detection in a RPL network" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Lele Zhang (Shanghai), Huimin She (Shanghai) and Li Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method comprises: creating, by a root network device in a wireless data network, a perimeter topology comprising a first distance vector-protocol path of a first group of perimeter devices and a second distance vector-protocol path of a second group of the perimeter devices, the creating comprising outputting f...