US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on March 11 for "Encrypted nonces as rotated device addresses" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,538, issued on March 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Encrypted nonces as rotated device addresses" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Stephen Michael Orr (Wallkill, N.Y.) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rotation of a wireless client device address is based on an encryption key and a nonce value. Key information and nonce value information are shared between a wireless client device and a network infrastructure component over a secure communication channel. The wireless client device encrypts the nonce value using the key information and encodes the enc...