US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on June 23 for "Methods and systems for content distribution" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,887, issued on June 23, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for content distribution" was invented by Anni Karinsalo (Oulu, Finland), Pekka Koskela (Oulu, Finland), Markku Kylanpaa (Helsinki) and Ville Ollikainen (Vihti, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for content distribution at a distributor. A functionally encrypted content request comprising a user identifier and a content identifier is received. The functionally encrypted content request is sent to a content provider. A content reply comprising the functionally encrypted content request and encrypted...