US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 30 for "Randomizing server-side addresses" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,183, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Randomizing server-side addresses" was invented by David A. Maluf (Mountain View, Calif.), Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Pradeep Kumar Kathail (Los Altos, Calif.), Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Roquefort les Pins, France), Eric Voit (Bethesda, Md.) and Ali Sajassi (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for using Network Address Translation (NAT), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to anonymize server-side addresses in data c...