MUMBAI, India, May 29 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202621042739 A) filed by Mr. Satish Kamble; Dr. Surendra Mahajan; and Dr. Lalit Patil, Pune, Maharashtra, on April 2, for 'memory-efficient trust management system and method for iot networks.'
Inventor(s) include Mr. Satish Kamble; Dr. Surendra Mahajan; and Dr. Lalit Patil.
The application for the patent was published on May 29, under issue no. 22/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a memory-efficient trust management system for Internet of Things (IoT) networks, configured to evaluate and regulate communication among distributed devices. The system comprises heterogeneous computing nodes including single-board computers and microcontroller-based devices interconnected via a communication network using a publish-subscribe protocol. Each computing node implements a trust evaluation module configured to generate probing messages, receive acknowledgments, and compute Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters including packet delivery ratio, latency, and error rate. A sliding-window mechanism is employed to retain recent interaction data, thereby reducing memory usage. Direct trust is computed using QoS parameters, while indirect trust is obtained from neighboring nodes through a confidence-weighted aggregation mechanism. A combined trust score is generated using weighted fusion and recency-based smoothing. Based on a predefined threshold, nodes are classified as trusted or untrusted, and untrusted nodes are blocked from communication, enabling real-time detection of malicious behavior in IoT networks."
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