ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,100, issued on June 23, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for managing media subscriptions" was invented by William L. Thomas (Evergreen, Colo.), Paul T. Stathacopoulos (San Carlos, Calif.) and Walter R. Klappert (North Hollywood, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for a media guidance application that manages media subscriptions between a user and a content provider. In particular, the media guidance application may automatically identify subscription terms that are beneficial for both a user and for a content provider."
The patent was filed on Sept. 17, ...