US Patent Issued to ESW Holdings on Jan. 27 for "Security systems and methods for encoding and decoding content" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,334, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ESW Holdings Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Security systems and methods for encoding and decoding content" was invented by Steven Sprague (Richmond, Mass.) and Michael Sprague (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may be provided for masking data on public networks, such as social networking sites. At a publishing node, the system may monitor data input fields in a webpage, and intercept and encode content, such as text, images, and video input at the data input fields, prior to the content being posted online on a public service provider's website. A privacy agent may process i...