US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 4 for "Decentralized approach to identify objects across a federation in a network" (Italian, British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,918, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Decentralized approach to identify objects across a federation in a network" was invented by Gianluca Mardente (Girifalco, Italy), Giovanni Meo (Rome), Giuseppe Monterosso (London) and Massimiliano Ardica (Valbonne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and architecture are described for identifying objects, e.g., resources, across a federation in a network, and more particularly, to identifying objects, e.g., resources, across a federation of access networks, e.g., fabric networks, for extending access of the objects across the federation in ...