US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 19 for "Controlling sharing of content targeting data with content delivery networks" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,538, issued on May 19, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Controlling sharing of content targeting data with content delivery networks" was invented by Elizabeth Latham (Philadelphia) and Steven Pauken (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for controlling sharing of content targeting data (e.g., user-specific data and/or device-specific data) with content-outputting software applications outputting both primary content and secondary content. A user may specify whether the user wants to receive targeted secondary content from the content outputting-so...