US Patent Issued to GEN DIGITAL on Feb. 17 for "Assigning privacy ratings to tracking domains in order to increase user awareness of online privacy violations" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,617, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Assigning privacy ratings to tracking domains in order to increase user awareness of online privacy violations" was invented by Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France) and Leylya Yumer (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assigning privacy ratings to tracking domains in order to increase user awareness of online privacy violations. A list of known tracking domains and raw data from a set of host websites may be received. A prevalence, frequency, and role for each tracking domain may be determined from the raw data. Each tracking domain may be assigne...