US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Enforcing EULA version aware application response" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,679, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Enforcing EULA version aware application response" was invented by Ben Lyle Straubinger (Camp Hill, Australia), Jasmine Anne Smith (Southport, Australia), Matthew Britt (Nerang, Australia) and Scott Anthony Exton (Shailer Park, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to enforcing EULA version aware application response, responsive to receiving a request from a user to access an application, details of an End User License Agreement (EULA) are sent to the application. A response is received from the application based on the de...