US Patent Issued to DIRECTV on June 23 for "Methods and apparatus for synchronous HTTP media playback" (Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,940, issued on June 23, was assigned to DIRECTV LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for synchronous HTTP media playback" was invented by Reza Pezeshki (Chevy Chase, Md.), Richard Tatem (Middletown, Md.), Horia-Mihai Popa (Iasi, Romania), Bogdan Livadariu (Valea Lupului, Romania) and Wassim Daccache (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to synchronize media playback at devices in a multicast environment. Disclosed is a system to synchronize media playback, the system comprising programmable circuitry, and a memory that stores executable in...