US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 13 for "Centralized consent vendors for managing network-based consent contracts" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,729, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Centralized consent vendors for managing network-based consent contracts" was invented by Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.) and Ian James Wells (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for creating consent contracts for devices that indicate whether the devices consent to receiving network-based communications from other devices. Further, the techniques include enforcing the consent contracts such that network-based communications are either allowed or disallowed in the network-communications layer prior to the network comm...