US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Aug. 11 for "Enhanced message content security" (Washington, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,928, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Enhanced message content security" was invented by Alan Jonathan Moe (Seattle), Brian Scott Ryerson (Platte City, Mo.) and William Wheat (Greenbank, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for redacting malicious URLs and other activatable content from messages are disclosed. A content analysis system may receive a text message or a multimedia message and determine whether a URL is contained in such a message. If so, the content analysis system may determine the maliciousness of the URL using various techniques, redacting the URL from the m...