US Patent Issued to GEN DIGITAL on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for protecting user data privacy against web tracking on Wi-Fi captive portals" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,317, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for protecting user data privacy against web tracking on Wi-Fi captive portals" was invented by Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France) and Christopher Gates (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method for protecting user data privacy against web tracking on Wi-Fi captive portals may include (i) detecting telemetry data generated from establishing a connection with a network access device associated with a captive portal, (ii) determining, based on the telemetry data, a target set of domain...