US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on July 29 for "Inferring trust in computer networks" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,496, issued on July 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Inferring trust in computer networks" was invented by Charles Damian O'Neill (Ballymena, Great Britain), Kieran Gerald McPeake (Belfast, Great Britain), Simon James (Newtownards, Great Britain) and Hayden Paul Shorter (Bangor, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques including assessing trust in a computer network. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes determining a level of trust that a first network entity has for a second network entity; determining a level of trust that the second...