US Patent Issued to Button on Dec. 16 for "Privacy-enhanced contextual user session stitching" (California, Maine, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,958, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Button Inc. (Greenwich, Conn.).

"Privacy-enhanced contextual user session stitching" was invented by Sean Joey Summers (San Francisco), Keith Austin Johnson (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Wesley Duncan Smith (Windham, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to stitching together user sessions across disjoint entities to facilitate session continuity while meeting accuracy and privacy thresholds. Stitching together the user sessions involves a tunable bucket identifier for one or more users. The bucket identifier can be tuned to be common enough to be shared by multiple...