US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "Applying attestation to the border gateway protocol (BGP)" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,550, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Applying attestation to the border gateway protocol (BGP)" was invented by Clarence Filsfils (Brussels), Swadesh Agrawal (Fremont, Calif.) and Apoorva Karan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method by an apparatus of a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network includes accessing an attestation token for the apparatus. The method further includes encoding the attestation token in a BGP signaling message. The method further includes sending the BGP signaling message with the encoded attestation token to a second apparatus...