US Patent Issued to PubNub on Oct. 28 for "Methods and systems for authorizing a client device to a service" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,217, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to PubNub Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods and systems for authorizing a client device to a service" was invented by Jason Oster (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of authorizing a client device to a service includes, by an electronic device: defining an access control list that includes permissions for authorized clients of a customer, creating authorization tokens and encoding the ACL into each of the authorization tokens, and distributing the authorization tokens to the authorized clients. The method includes, by a data center that provides a service to one or more of the auth...