ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,314, issued on April 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Access control using task manager" was invented by Jeffrey Ziembicki (Glenside, Pa.), Bin Wen (Mount Laurel, N.J.) and Michael Chen (Wallingford, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for providing conditional access to a service. One or more tasks may be associated with a user profile. The one or more tasks may be indicated as required to be completed to access the service. The one or more tasks may have associated deadlines. If a task is not completed by the deadline, then any device associated with the user prof...