US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I, AT&T Mobility II on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for user defined network enabled content filtering" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,673, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for user defined network enabled content filtering" was invented by Mark Austin (Lucas, Texas), Shahab Azmoudeh (Dallas), Joseph Dorsey (Allen, Texas), Victor Nilson (Dallas), Christopher Sambar (San Antonio) and Jerald Weber (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content filtering system and method includes receiving in a network device in a network from a user device, a user selected set of rules identifying a set of URLs to be blocked. The set of rules are loaded into the network de...