US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 30 for "Decentralized internet protocol security key negotiation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,059, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Decentralized internet protocol security key negotiation" was invented by Kyle Mestery (Woodbury, Minn.) and Grzegorz Boguslaw Duraj (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for decentralized key negotiation. One method includes initiating, by a first Internet Key Exchange (IKE) node from among a plurality of IKE nodes, a rekeying process for an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) communication session established with a client device and serviced by a second IKE node from among the plurality of IKE nodes, and in which a ...