US Patent Issued to ESW Holdings on June 17 for "Security systems and methods for social networking" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,052, issued on June 17, was assigned to ESW Holdings Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Security systems and methods for social networking" 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 that are processed by an internet browser. The system may intercept data, such as text, images, and video input at the data input fields, prior to the data being posted online on a public service provider's website. The p...