ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,960, issued on June 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"User consent framework" was invented by Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.) and Yian Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an apparatus for managing user data according to user consent settings are described. In some aspects, a method includes determining that a request for transmission by a client device to a recipient will include user data of a user of the client device. In response determining that the request will include the user data, the method includes requesting, from a consent management module of ...