ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,983, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Data policies for online services" was invented by Arie Friedman (Lane Cove, Australia), Hadas Bitran (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Uri Barash (Tel Mond, Israel), Marc Davis (San Francisco) and Oded Nahir (Hofit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An online service may maintain or create data for a user, and a user may be allowed to exert control over how the data are used. In one example, there may be several categories of data, and the user may be able to specify who may use the data, and the purpose for which the data may be used. Addition...