ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,919, issued on May 13, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Linear interactive television data insertion" was invented by Danial E. Holden (Englewood, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is presented for utilizing an automation server and/or a traffic control manager in the content origination workflow to control a multiplexer, data carousel, and/or packager of an interactive television (iTV) system to synchronize the content (audio, video) with the interactive application data. Further, other aspects provide methods and systems for network ad insertion to generate iTV enhanced advert...