US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 16 for "Media usage monitoring and control" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,316, issued on June 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Media usage monitoring and control" was invented by Sunil Sodah (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of monitoring access to media content across disparate media devices are disclosed. Aspects relate to systems and methods that may be implemented to control access to media content. In one embodiment, rules may define usage parameters of a user for several types of media content and/or disparate media devices."

The patent was filed on June 14, 2019, under Application No. 16/441,204.

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