US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 21 for "Secure device location sharing" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,679, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Secure device location sharing" was invented by Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Scott Ross Blue (Oulu, Finland) and Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Secure device location sharing may be provided. Over a secured link, an indication that a peer-to-peer device desires Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) based location sharing may be received. Then, from the peer-to-peer device over the secured link, an identity provider (IdP) may be received for the peer-to-peer device. Next, validation of the peer-to-...