US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 15 for "Advertising BGP destination secure path requirement in global internet" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,175, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Advertising BGP destination secure path requirement in global internet" was invented by Swadesh Agrawal (Fremont, Calif.), Dhananjaya Kasargod Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jakob Heitz (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Eric Voit (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for secure network routing. A method includes: receiving, at a network node, an advertisement message for a network route including an IP address prefix; receiving, at the network node, a route origin authorization associat...