US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 28 for "Controlling access to restricted and unrestricted software functionality" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,655, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Controlling access to restricted and unrestricted software functionality" was invented by Gordon Thomas (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed methods involve controlling a display system to present one or more restricted access virtual buttons in a secure region. The restricted access virtual buttons may correspond to functionality of the apparatus or functionality of a software application for which access is restricted. Some disclosed methods involve controlling the display system to present one or more unrestricted access virtual buttons...