US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 20 for "Indicating network-based consent contracts using packet-level data" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,268, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Indicating network-based consent contracts using packet-level data" was invented by Ian James Wells (San Jose, Calif.) and Kyle Andrew Donald Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.).

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 communicat...