US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 10 for "Cloud-based security controls for multi-level hierarchal equipment access" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,204, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud-based security controls for multi-level hierarchal equipment access" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Flemming Stig Andreasen (Marlboro, N.J.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Elango Ganesan (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device determines a hierarchy of layers of a network comprising a plurality of networking devices. The device configures, in response to a request by a client to access remotely a particular endpoint in the network, a proxy chain of remote access agents executed by a...