IPR Details
Saluca LLC's Statement about IPR related to draft-ruvalcaba-hctp

Update this IPR disclosure
Submitted: August 12, 2026 under the rules in RFC 8179.

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I. Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

Holder legal name Saluca LLC

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Cristian Ruvalcaba
Holder contact email cristian@saluca.com
Holder contact info

I am the Patent Holder / authorized representative

III. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates

Internet-Draft:
draft-ruvalcaba-hctp ("The Hash-Chain Context Transfer Protocol (HCTP)")
Revisions:
all

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 8179

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

Number: US64/009818
Inventor: Cristian Xavier Ruvalcaba
Title: Method and System for Incremental Conversational Context Transfer Using Hash-Chain Validated Rolling Root Attestation Over Bandwidth-Constrained Communication Channels
Date: 2026-03-18
Notes: Unpublished U.S. provisional application. Provisional applications are not examined or published and bear no patent or publication number. Claim numbering may change upon conversion to a non-provisional application. The disclosure relates to claims of this application that are essential to implementing draft-ruvalcaba-hctp-00 (a transport-agnostic context-synchronization protocol).

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending No

V. Licensing Declaration

The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s) disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such specification, is as follows(select one licensing declaration option only):

Licensing Royalty-Free, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory License to All Implementers
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

The Patent Holder commits to grant a royalty-free, reasonable, and non-discriminatory license to all implementers, under any claims of the identified application that are or become essential to implementing draft-ruvalcaba-hctp-00, solely for the purpose of implementing the specification. This commitment is made irrespective of whether the application is converted to a non-provisional application or issues as a patent.

Note: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the above-selected licensing declaration.

VI. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Cristian Xavier Ruvalcaba
Submitter email cristian@saluca.com

VII. Other Notes

Additional notes

I am the Patent Holder / authorized representative

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