ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,992, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Data collection management" was invented by Scott Miserendino (Arlington, Va.), Ryan Peters (Reston, Va.) and Jeffrey Oatess (Edgewater, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing security in a network that may be managed by the collection of data from sensors. A computing device may instruct sensors on one or more networks to collect and report data of certain data types based on modes that indicate instructions for sending and/or storing data of one or more data types. If the reported data is determined ...