ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,914, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AppDirect Inc (San Francisco).
"Geographically local license sharing" was invented by Daniel P. Craggs (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for geographically local license sharing. The method includes transmitting, from a media server, a shared secret to a licensed client, the licensed client broadcasting a wireless signal comprising a unique identifier associated with the licensed client. The method also includes receiving, at the media server, an access token and the unique identifier of the...