US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Virtual private networks for similar profiles" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,391, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Virtual private networks for similar profiles" was invented by Steven Leslie Shafer (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Robert Simon (Staatsburg, N.Y.) and Mathew Accapadi (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for grouping user profiles onto Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) including a computer-implemented method comprising creating a user profile at a VPN manager and associating the user profile with a set of demographically similar user profiles based on characteristics of the user profile. The computer-implemented met...