US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY on Jan. 20 for "Cloud-native function authentication at layer 2" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,905, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RAKUTEN SYMPHONY INC. (Tokyo).

"Cloud-native function authentication at layer 2" was invented by Paromita Chintan Shah (Tokyo), Nagendra Shridhar Bykampadi (Tokyo) and Krishna Pramod Adharapurapu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to cloud-native function (CNF) authentication during the instantiation and bootstrapping of the CNF. According to embodiments, a method may be provided, including sending, by a supplicant to an authenticator during an instantiation and bootstrapping stage of a CNF, a message to initiate an Extensible Authenticati...