US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Oct. 20 for "Use of sentiment analysis to assess trust in a network" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,694, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Use of sentiment analysis to assess trust in a network" was invented by Charles Damian O'Neill (Ballymena, Great Britain), Simon James (Newtownards, Great Britain), Kieran Gerald McPeake (Belfast, Great Britain) and Hayden Paul Shorter (Bangor, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques that include assessing trust in a system, and in particular, assessing trust by performing a sentiment analysis for an entity or device within a system. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that inclu...