ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,212, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for monitoring content subscription usage on many devices" was invented by William L. Thomas (Evergreen, Colo.) and Walter R. Klappert (North Hollywood, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, control circuitry logs, at a memory, over a particular time period, a number of instances of simultaneous streaming of media requests from a media streaming service by different devices using authentication information associated with a same user account. The control circuitry identifies a threshold number of instances of simult...