US Patent Issued to NETSWEEPER (BARBADOS) on Aug. 4 for "Intelligent cohorts for network content delivery" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,165, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NETSWEEPER (BARBADOS) INC. (St. Michael, Barbados).

"Intelligent cohorts for network content delivery" was invented by Perry J. Roach (Waterloo, Canada), Geoffrey Wells (Waterloo, Canada) and John Alexander Robb (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To create or update a cohort comprising a weighted content category group that reflect usage behavior of a user group, a data packet in transit between a user device and a host through an internet service provider (ISP) core network is intercepted. The data packet is assigned to a category of content and analyzed to obtain a user identifier...