US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 7 for "Discovery and assignment of privacy-protecting relays in a network" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,848, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Discovery and assignment of privacy-protecting relays in a network" was invented by Jason Livingood (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for discovery and assignment of privacy-protecting proxies/relays in a network. As an example, a gateway device located at a premises may send a request for data indicating one or more privacy-protecting proxies (PPPs) available to the gateway device, to a network device located external to the premises. The gateway device may select a PPP from the one or more PPPs availa...