US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "System and method for generating a private group encryption key based on a unique group identifier" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,337, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for generating a private group encryption key based on a unique group identifier" was invented by Stephen M Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.) and Shree Narasimha Murthy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for generating group encryption keys for a global group and a private group to encrypt wireless messages between an access point and a station. The private group key is based on a unique private group identifier. The global group key and the private group key are sent from the access point to one or m...