{"id":172,"date":"2008-03-04T10:37:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2008\/03\/04\/context-connect-gets-another-patent-"},"modified":"2008-03-04T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:38:42","slug":"context-connect-gets-another-patent-on-private-directory-based-conn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2008\/03\/04\/context-connect-gets-another-patent-on-private-directory-based-conn\/","title":{"rendered":"Context Connect gets another patent on private directory-based connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contextconnect.com\">Context Connect<\/a> gets another US patent on private directory-based connectivity (<span><em>US Patent #7,340,048 &#8211; A System and Method for Directory Services and eCommerce Across Multi-Provider Networks<\/em>)<\/span>.\u00a0 The patent allows for basic connectivity calls and ecommerce transactions to take place across multiple service providers, without revealing the individuals&#8217; contact details or information.\u00a0 Given all it privacy issues surrounding an individuals&#8217; personal details, the patent is focused on protecting one&#8217;s privacy while allow basic transactions to take place &#8211; such as a simple call to another person &#8211; calling people based on names, rather than phone numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context Connect gets another US patent on private directory-based connectivity (US Patent #7,340,048 &#8211; A System and Method for Directory Services and eCommerce Across Multi-Provider Networks).\u00a0 The patent allows for basic connectivity calls and ecommerce transactions to take place across multiple service providers, without revealing the individuals&#8217; contact details or information.\u00a0 Given all it privacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279,567,381,279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-context-connect","category-contextual-directory","category-patents","category-privacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}