US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 17 for "Blocking and alerting with domain fronting intelligence" (Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,279, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Blocking and alerting with domain fronting intelligence" was invented by David Arthur McGrew (Poolesville, Md.) and Blake Harrell Anderson (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for improving blocking and alerting with domain fronting intelligence. The techniques may identify Internet infrastructure that supports domain fronting through passive data collection and active scanning of the data. The results of the active scanning are then used to generate enhanced threat intelligence feeds tha...