US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 1 for "Byte code monitoring to avoid certificate-based outages" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,505, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Byte code monitoring to avoid certificate-based outages" was invented by Plamen Nedeltchev (San Jose, Calif.) and John Buren Southerland (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a monitoring service deploys a monitoring agent to a client device. The monitoring service receives certificate information for a certificate intercepted by the monitoring agent during an online transaction. The monitoring service determines, based on the certificate information, an expiration time for the certificate intercepted by the monitoring agent. The...