US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 14 for "Enforcing publisher content item block requests" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,514, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enforcing publisher content item block requests" was invented by Matthew Young-Lai (Kitchener, Canada), Chris Kirby (Pittsburgh) and Pavel Kobyakov (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enforcing publisher content item block requests. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a set of declared network locations for a content item and rendering the content item. A request is initiated for a resource that is referenced by the content item, and net...