US Patent Issued to Avast Software s.r.o. on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for reputation-based transactions over a network" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,730, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Avast Software s.r.o. (Prague).

"Systems and methods for reputation-based transactions over a network" was invented by Allan Thomson (Pleasanton, Calif.), Drummond Reed (Seattle) and Jamie Smith (Great Bookham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transacting over a network. A first agent operating on a first computing system is operable to transact on behalf of a first entity. The first agent transacts with a second agent operating on a second computing system for a first cryptographically verifiable credential, transmits the first cryptographically verifiable cre...