US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 19 for "Technique for eliminating ingress-proxy in the multi-relay approach for privacy" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,468, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Technique for eliminating ingress-proxy in the multi-relay approach for privacy" was invented by Sri Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Eric A. Voit (Bethesda, Md.), Pradeep K. Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.), Ali Sajassi (San Ramon, Calif.) and David Maluf (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method of IP obfuscation of a user device includes receiving, over an Extendible Authentication Protocol (EAP) session between a user device and a network access point, location preferences of the user device, generating, based on the lo...