US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 11 for "Application capabilities and data sharing" (Pennsylvania, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,842, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Application capabilities and data sharing" was invented by Michael Horwitz (Seattle) and Benjamin E. Greenberg (Rydal, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for data sharing between applications. A first application may attempt to access data associated with a second application, an operating system, and/or a cloud service. An operating system may determine whether to grant access based on one or more factors such as device capability, an application declaration, a user setting, a user acknowledgement...