US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 13 for "Group identity assignment and policy enforcement for devices within the same network" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,282, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Group identity assignment and policy enforcement for devices within the same network" was invented by Roberto Muccifora (Ropraz, Switzerland), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Amine Choukir (Lausanne, Switzerland), Ugo Mario Campiglio (Morges, Switzerland), Shree Murthy (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephen M. Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Group identity assignment and policy enforcement may be provided. A User Defined Network Identifier (UDN ID) defining a group of client devices may be received. Next, a client iden...