US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 25 for "Upstream approach for secure cryptography key distribution and management for multi-site data centers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,079, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Upstream approach for secure cryptography key distribution and management for multi-site data centers" was invented by Govind Prasad Sharma (Union City, Calif.), Javed Asghar (Dublin, Calif.), Prabhu Balakannan (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sridhar Vallepalli (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-based "upstream" approach is a controller-based solution that provides secure key distribution and management for multi-site data centers. The approach uses an SDN Multi-Site Controller (MSC) that acts as an intermediary ...