U.S. Patent 11044156 was awarded to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. on June 22, 2021 and is entitled “Secure mechanism to manage network device configuration and audit with a blockchain.” The first named inventor is Santosh Ramrao Patil of Santa Clara, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: Techniques and mechanisms for secure management…
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U.S. Patent 10972463 was awarded to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. on April 06, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain-based NB-IoT devices.” The first named inventor is Mark Ammar Rayes of San Ramon, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: Various implementations disclosed herein enable blockchain programming in NB-IoT devices. In various implementations, a method…
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U.S. Patent 10949557 was awarded to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. on March 16, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain-based auditing, instantiation and maintenance of 5G network slices.” The first named inventor is Prashanth Patil of San Jose, CA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: Disclosed herein is a distributed ledger method for a fifth-generation…
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U.S. Patent 10944646 was awarded to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. on March 09, 2021 and is entitled “Enabling multiple provider software defined network programming using blockchain distributed ledgers.” The first named inventor is Rajiv Asati of Morrisville, NC. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: The disclosure provides a secure and scalable approach for…
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U.S. Patent 10924283 was awarded to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC. on February 16, 2021 and is entitled “Dynamically-changing identity for IoT devices with blockchain validation.” The first named inventor is Carlos M. Pignataro of Cary, NC. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure: Techniques for use in generating a dynamically-changing IoT device identity with…
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