ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,772, issued on May 27, was assigned to Synamedia Ltd. (Middlesex, Great Britain).
"Home context-aware authentication" was invented by Orly Amsalem (Jerusalem) and Steve Epstein (Hashmonaim, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Context-aware authentication may be provided. First, a request may be received for content service. The request may comprise information associated with a context of a household from which the request came. Next, the request may be authenticated based on the information associated with the context of the household from which the request came. Then the content service may be provided in response to authenticati...