US Patent Issued to GoPro on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for sharing content through a captive portal" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,558, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for sharing content through a captive portal" was invented by Daryl Stimm (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media item(s) stored on an image capture device are identified for sharing. The image capture device runs a web server that hosts the media item(s) and runs a media access webpage for other computing device(s) to access the hosted media item(s). The image capture device creates a communication network having a network name and a network password, generates machine-readable optical code(s) that convey the network name and...