MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517051132 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, U.S.A., on May 28, for 'fabric-based root-of-trust.'
Inventor(s) include Dvorkin, Mike; Banerjee, Ayan; and Kar, Chakradhar.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method of creating a root-of-trust (RoT) within a network fabric may include powering on a network interface card (NIC) baseboard management controller (BMC) (NIC BMC), booting up a NIC via the NIC BMC, obtaining an address for the NIC, verifying an identity of the NIC at a fabric trust identity server using a key obtained from a secure vault communicatively coupled to the NIC BMC, verifying with the fabric trust identity server a number of images of a host device residing in the NIC based at least in part on the identity of the NIC being verified, and instructing a platform BMC to boot up the host device based at least in part on the number of images of the host device being verified."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 16, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/076995.
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