ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,286, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for performing targeted lawful intercept in a system including content delivery networks" was invented by Girard Hoffpauir IV (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for filtering lawfully intercepted encrypted traffic are described. A communications service provider network includes a mediation device and a security device. The mediation device receives a provisioned intercept request including a target IP address and one or more unique identifies corresponding to the target. The security dev...