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Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP

Posted by timothy on from the that's-friendly dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following the recent excitement over a potential vulnerability in TCP, Cisco's "Worldwide Patent Counsel", Robert Barr, has let it be known that they have pending patent applications for one or more of the IETF recommendations for improving TCP's security. KernelTrap has the full details."

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  1. Re:that's bad by Stevyn · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well Microsoft's Trusted Computing is bad. I'm not sure how "evil" Cisco is. But then again, they are a large company that makes lots of money so there's got to be something sinister about that. Maybe their name should be Ci$co, or even ciSCO.

  2. That's simply not true by tacobot · · Score: 0, Troll

    Read these patent success stories. None of these innovations were perpetrated by a monopoly, nor by a company without a business model. In fact they are all authored by a succesful, innovative business.

    I have a suspicion that many people who are angry at our established patent system do not have a strong background in either law or business.