ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,585, issued on June 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Trust management in distributed systems" was invented by Igor Dubrovsky (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Nisan Haimov (Beer-Sheva, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Boris Shpilyuck (Ashdod, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing trust in distributed are disclosed. To manage trust, a behavior and characteristic based trust model may be used. The trust model may utilize similarity between devices and public activity of devices over time to ascertain levels of trust that should be afforded devices of the distributed system. The...