US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 13 for "Identifying trusted service set identifiers for wireless networks" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,102, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identifying trusted service set identifiers for wireless networks" was invented by Jay K. Johnston (Raleigh, N.C.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), David C. White Jr. (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Magnus Mortensen (Cary, N.C.), John M. Swartz (Lithia, Fla.) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying a trusted SSID for a wireless network are disclosed. Prior to establishing a connection with a wireless network, a first network message is received from a first access point (AP) identifying a first service se...