ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,900, issued on July 1, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Split path data communication" was invented by Max Edward Metral (Brookline, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, a medium, and a method are provided to split data paths among various devices in data communications system. In some instances, the server device receives a request from a remote device such as a website server or a checkout device, where the request indicates a user request to purchase one or more items. An account management component of the server device determines a user account associated with the user request and identifies a user devic...